PERFORMANCE OF A DEGENERATE KTIOPO4 OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR, SYNCHRONOUSLY PUMPED BY A MODE-LOCKED AND Q-SWITCHED ND-YAG CONTINUOUS-WAVE OSCILLATOR SLAB AMPLIFIER COMBINATION

Authors
LOTSHAW WT UNTERNAHRER JR KUKLA MJ MIYAKE CI BRAUN FD
Citation
Wt. Lotshaw et al., PERFORMANCE OF A DEGENERATE KTIOPO4 OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR, SYNCHRONOUSLY PUMPED BY A MODE-LOCKED AND Q-SWITCHED ND-YAG CONTINUOUS-WAVE OSCILLATOR SLAB AMPLIFIER COMBINATION, Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics, 10(11), 1993, pp. 2191-2194
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
07403224
Volume
10
Issue
11
Year of publication
1993
Pages
2191 - 2194
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-3224(1993)10:11<2191:POADKO>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
We used a cw-pumped, Q-switched, and mode-locked Nd:YAG oscillator and a cw-pumped, multipass traveling-wave amplifier with a face-pumped to tal-internal-reflection Nd:YAG slab as the gain element to produce an 80-W, TEM00 diffraction-limited beam at a Q-switching rate of 10 kHz ( 50 W at 3 kHz). The output of this device was used to synchronously pu mp a degenerate optical parametric oscillator that utilized six KTiOPO 4 crystals as nonlinear converters. A maximum average power of 14 W at 2.128 mum was generated with a conversion efficiency of 25% at 4.25 k Hz.