Thulium-fiber-laser-pumped, high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared orientation-patterned GaAs optical parametric generator and amplifier
Thulium-fiber-laser-pumped, high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared orientation-patterned GaAs optical parametric generator and amplifier
We report a high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared optical parametric generator (OPG) and optical parametric amplifier (OPA) based on orientation-patterned gallium arsenide pumped by a thulium:fiber master-oscillator-power-amplifier employing direct diode-seeded amplification. An OPG tuning range of 2550–2940 nm (signal) and 5800–8300 nm (idler) is demonstrated with peak powers as high as 3 (signal) and 2 kW (idler), and with pulse energies of 0.26 and 0.16 μJ, respectively. When seeded with a 0.6 cm−1 linewidth tunable Cr:ZnSe laser, the OPA idler linewidth is narrowed to 1.4 cm−1 and a small-signal parametric gain of 60 dB is achieved. A maximum peak power of 13.3 (signal) and 3.2 kW (idler) is obtained at an overall conversion efficiency of 36%. The corresponding maximum pulse energies for the signal and idler are 1.07 and 0.26 μJ, respectively.
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Xu, Lin
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Fu, Qiang
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Liang, Sijing
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Shepherd, David
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Richardson, David
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Alam, Shaif-Ul
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1 October 2017
Xu, Lin
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Fu, Qiang
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Liang, Sijing
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Shepherd, David
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Richardson, David
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Alam, Shaif-Ul
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Xu, Lin, Fu, Qiang, Liang, Sijing, Shepherd, David, Richardson, David and Alam, Shaif-Ul
(2017)
Thulium-fiber-laser-pumped, high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared orientation-patterned GaAs optical parametric generator and amplifier.
Optics Letters, 42 (19), .
(doi:10.1364/OL.42.004036).
Abstract
We report a high-peak-power, picosecond, mid-infrared optical parametric generator (OPG) and optical parametric amplifier (OPA) based on orientation-patterned gallium arsenide pumped by a thulium:fiber master-oscillator-power-amplifier employing direct diode-seeded amplification. An OPG tuning range of 2550–2940 nm (signal) and 5800–8300 nm (idler) is demonstrated with peak powers as high as 3 (signal) and 2 kW (idler), and with pulse energies of 0.26 and 0.16 μJ, respectively. When seeded with a 0.6 cm−1 linewidth tunable Cr:ZnSe laser, the OPA idler linewidth is narrowed to 1.4 cm−1 and a small-signal parametric gain of 60 dB is achieved. A maximum peak power of 13.3 (signal) and 3.2 kW (idler) is obtained at an overall conversion efficiency of 36%. The corresponding maximum pulse energies for the signal and idler are 1.07 and 0.26 μJ, respectively.
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Accepted/In Press date: 12 September 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 September 2017
Published date: 1 October 2017
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/414864
ISSN: 0146-9592
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Qiang Fu
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Sijing Liang
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David Shepherd
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Shaif-Ul Alam
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