Femtosecond self-doubling optical parametric oscillator based on KTiOAsO4

Tolga Kartaloglu and Orhan Aytür

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 39, pp. 65-67, 2003.


Abstract

We report a femtosecond intracavity-frequency-doubled optical parametric oscillator that employs a single KTiOAsO4 crystal for both parametric generation and frequency doubling. This device generates a yellow output beam at 575 nm with 39.4% power conversion efficiency when synchronously pumped by a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser at a wavelength of 796 nm. An intracavity retarder is employed to alleviate temporal pulse overlap problems associated with group velocity mismatch inside the KTiOAsO4 crystal.

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Orhan Aytür
aytur@ee.bilkent.edu.tr

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