Self-doubling OPO

Phase-matched self-doubling optical parametric oscillator

Tolga Kartaloglu, Kahraman G. Köprülü, and Orhan Aytür

Optics Letters, vol. 22, pp. 280-282, 1997.


Abstract

We report a synchronously pumped intracavity frequency-doubled optical parametric oscillator that employs a single KTiOPO4 crystal for both parametric generation and frequency doubling. Both nonlinear processes are phase matched for the same direction of propagation in the crystal. The parametric oscillator, pumped by a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser at a wavelength of 745 nm, generates a green output beam at 540 nm with a 29% power conversion efficiency. Angle tuning in conjunction with pump wavelength tuning provides output tunability in the 530-585-nm range.

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Orhan Aytür
aytur@ee.bilkent.edu.tr

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