SYNCHRONOUSLY PUMPED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS

Authors
VANDRIEL HM
Citation
Hm. Vandriel, SYNCHRONOUSLY PUMPED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS, Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics, 60(5), 1995, pp. 411-420
Citations number
59
Journal title
Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09462171
Volume
60
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
411 - 420
Database
ISI
SICI code
0946-2171(1995)60:5<411:SPOPO>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Recent work on the development of high-repetition-rate, synchronously pumped picosecond and femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPOs ) is reviewed. With KTP, BBO or LBO crystals and solid-state pumps suc h as cw mode-locked Ti:Sapphire, Nd:YAG or Nd:YLF lasers, the singly r esonant OPOs or their nonlinear optical accessories yield pulses as sh ort as 40 fs, average powers up to hundreds of milliwatts, and tunabil ity from 200 nm to > 10 mu m.