A Tandem OPO route to the mid-IR

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 236-239

  Terry, J A C ^a   McEwan, K J ^a   Payne, M J P ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(160.4330) Nonlinear optical materials; (190.1360) Nonlinear optics; (190.2620) Frequency conversion; (190.4970) Parametric oscillator; Amplifiers; Devices

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PUMPING (LASER); ZINC COMPOUNDS;

(160.4330) NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIAL; (190.1360) NONLINEAR OPTIC; (190.2620) FREQUENCY CONVERSION; (190.4970) PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR; FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS; ND:YAG LASER; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS;

YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

EID: 84929322510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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2. Pomernaz, L A et al, ‘Efficient power scaling in the mid-IR with a ZnGePz OPO’ OSA TOPS vol. 10 ASSL ‘97 pp 259-261
3. For example, Myers, L E, ‘Quasi-phase-matched optical parametric oscillators in bulk periodically poled LiNbO3’, J. Opt. SOC.Am. B 12 (1995) 2102
4. Guyer, D R and Lowenthal, D D, ‘Novel cavity design for a high efficiency, high energy near infrared P-Ba20s parametric generator’, SPIE Vol. 1220 Nonlinear Optics (1990) 41-44
5. Vodop’yanov, K L, et al, ‘High-effciency picosecond parametric superradiance emitted by a ZnGeP2 crystal in the 5-6.3 pm region’, Sov. J. Qu. Elec. 17 (1987) 1159