BANDWIDTH STUDIES OF AN INJECTION-SEEDED BETA-BARIUM BORATE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR

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BOONENGERING, JM [1 ]
VANDERVEER, WE [1 ]
GERRITSEN, JW [1 ]
HOGERVORST, W [1 ]
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[1] VRIJE UNIV AMSTERDAM, CTR LASER, DEPT PHYS & ASTRON, 1081 HV AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
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10.1364/OL.20.000380
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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Spectral and temporal properties of a scanning injection-seeded beta-barium borate optical parametric oscillator pumped by the third harmonic of a 10-Hz Nd:YAG laser have been studied. The seed source was a cw diode laser with a wavelength of 830 nm tunable over a range of 50 GHz. We measured the bandwidth of the seeded optical parameter oscillator, using a two-photon resonance in barium and a Fabry-Perot etalon, to be approximately 400 MHz for pump power levels more than two times above threshold. This is similar to 2 times the Fourier-transform-limited bandwidth. At lower pump powers the bandwidth was smaller.
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