Frequency doubling of narrowband high-energy optical parametric oscillators

Jim Clark; Bertram C. Johnson; Vince Newell

doi:10.1117/12.206479

10 April 1995 Frequency doubling of narrowband high-energy optical parametric oscillators

Jim Clark, Bertram C. Johnson, Vince Newell

Proceedings Volume 2379, Solid State Lasers and Nonlinear Crystals; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206479
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Poor beam propagation is a typical characteristic of most pulsed optical parametric oscillators. We describe the design and operation of a tunable narrow linewidth (< 0.2 cm^-1) high energy (> 100 mJ), low divergence (< 0.5 mrad) OPO system to overcome this problem. Frequency doubling efficiencies of this OPO are 185 when using BBO and 28% in KDP. These high efficiencies are attributed to the use of an unstable resonator in the OPO.

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Jim Clark, Bertram C. Johnson, and Vince Newell "Frequency doubling of narrowband high-energy optical parametric oscillators", Proc. SPIE 2379, Solid State Lasers and Nonlinear Crystals, (10 April 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.206479

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