Single-crystal sum-frequency generating optical parametric oscillator
Date
1997Source Title
Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 1997
Print ISSN
1092-8081
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
457 - 458
Language
English
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Abstract
A sum-frequency generating optical parametric oscillator (OPO), where a single crystal is employed for both parametric oscillation and sum frequency generation, is presented. The OPO is based on a KTiOPO4 crystal that is pumped by a Ti:sapphire laser operating at a wavelength of 828 nm. The two-step conversion is efficient, since both nonlinear conversion processes are phase matched in the same crystal.
Keywords
Optical frequency conversionOptical pumping
Single crystals
Optical parametric oscillators (OPO)
Parametric generation
Phase matching
Sum frequency generation (SFG)
Parametric oscillators