论文信息 - Mid-IR difference-frequency generation in OP-GaAs inside the cavity of a narrow-band nanosecond PPLN optical parametric oscillator

Mid-IR difference-frequency generation in OP-GaAs inside the cavity of a narrow-band nanosecond PPLN optical parametric oscillator

We report on efficient mid-IR difference-frequency generation (DFG) at ~8 μm in orientation-patterned GaAs (OPGaAs), by mixing the signal and idler fields inside a nanosecond, singly-resonant, periodically-poled MgO-doped LiNbO3 optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The temperature and spectral acceptance bandwidths as well as the DFG output performance are compared for two OP-GaAs samples with different lengths. Temperature tuning of the DFG is studied by implementing a transversely chirped Volume Bragg Grating (VBG) as one of the OPO cavity mirrors for the signal wave. The maximum DFG average power amounts to 215 mW at 8.15 μm for a pulse repetition rate of 35 kHz. The corresponding overall optical conversion efficiency from 1 to 8 μm is ~1.1%.

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