Efficient and Tunable 1.6-μm MgO:PPLN Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by Nd:YVO4/YVO4 Raman Laser

被引:6
作者
Zhao, Lei [1 ,2 ]
Ding, Xin [1 ,2 ]
Liu, Jian [1 ,2 ]
Zhang, Guizhong [1 ,2 ]
Yu, Xuanyi [3 ]
Liu, Yang [1 ,2 ]
Sun, Bing [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Jingbo [1 ,2 ]
Bai, Yuntao [1 ,2 ]
Jiang, Guoxin [1 ,2 ]
Lei, Peng [1 ,2 ]
Li, Tengteng [1 ,2 ]
Wu, Liang [1 ,2 ]
Yao, Jianquan [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Tianjin Univ, Inst Laser & Optoelect, Sch Precis Instrument & Optoelect Engn, Minist Educ, Tianjin 300072, Peoples R China
[2] Tianjin Univ, Key Lab Opto Elect Informat Technol, Minist Educ, Tianjin 300072, Peoples R China
[3] Nankai Univ, Coll Phys Sci, Tianjin 300071, Peoples R China
来源
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL | 2020年 / 12卷 / 01期
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Laser excitation; Pump lasers; Laser beams; Stimulated emission; Crystals; Laser modes; Laser radar; Beam quality; optical parametric oscillator; raman pumping; 1; 6-mu m laser; CONTINUOUS-WAVE; HIGH-POWER; OPERATION;
D O I
10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2955862
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A highly-efficient tunable 1.6 mu m MgO:PPLN-OPO, which we believe to be the first one pumped by a diode-end-pumped Raman laser, is demonstrated. A good beam-quality of actively Q-switched Nd:YVO4/YVO4 Raman laser at 1176 nm and a good mode matching of the whole system resulted in a high-performance OPO. The highest Raman-to-signal conversion efficiency was 49.5% at 1638.8 nm when the incident Raman power was 2 W. The maximum output power of 3.2 W at 1663.5 nm with the pulse-width of 2.85 ns was obtained pumped by 7.57-W Raman laser. Meanwhile, the linewidth was less than 0.3 nm and a high beam quality with M-2 factor of 1.92 was obtained.
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