Large aperture PPMgLN based high-power optical parametric oscillator at 3.8 µm pumped by a nanosecond linearly polarized fiber MOPA
Large aperture PPMgLN based high-power optical parametric oscillator at 3.8 µm pumped by a nanosecond linearly polarized fiber MOPA
We report a large aperture PPMgLN based OPO generating 21W of average output power at a slope efficiency of 45%. The OPO is pumped with the output from a polarization maintaining Ytterbium doped fiber MOPA operating at 1060nm producing 20ns pulses at a repetition rate of 100kHz and an average output power of 58W (after the isolators). A maximum of 5.5W of optical power was recorded at the idler wavelength of 3.82µm without thermal roll-off. The pulse rise/fall time plays a significant role in the OPO conversion efficiency and that further enhancements in the efficiency should be possible using pulses with faster rise and fall times.
fiber optics and optical communications, fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators, nonlinear optics, pulse shaping
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Lin, Dejiao
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Chen, Tao
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Richardson, David J.
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20 June 2012
Lin, Dejiao
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Alam, Shaif-ul
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Shen, Yonghang
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Chen, Tao
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Wu, Bo
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Richardson, David J.
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Lin, Dejiao, Alam, Shaif-ul, Shen, Yonghang, Chen, Tao, Wu, Bo and Richardson, David J.
(2012)
Large aperture PPMgLN based high-power optical parametric oscillator at 3.8 µm pumped by a nanosecond linearly polarized fiber MOPA.
Optics Express, 20 (14), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.20.015008).
Abstract
We report a large aperture PPMgLN based OPO generating 21W of average output power at a slope efficiency of 45%. The OPO is pumped with the output from a polarization maintaining Ytterbium doped fiber MOPA operating at 1060nm producing 20ns pulses at a repetition rate of 100kHz and an average output power of 58W (after the isolators). A maximum of 5.5W of optical power was recorded at the idler wavelength of 3.82µm without thermal roll-off. The pulse rise/fall time plays a significant role in the OPO conversion efficiency and that further enhancements in the efficiency should be possible using pulses with faster rise and fall times.
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Published date: 20 June 2012
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fiber optics and optical communications, fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators, nonlinear optics, pulse shaping
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/341124
ISSN: 1094-4087
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