Transition from single-mode to multimode operation of an injection-seeded pulsed optical parametric oscillator
- White, Richard T
- He, Yabai
- Orr, Brian J
- Kono, Mitsuhiko
- Baldwin, Kenneth
Publication date
December 2015
DOI Publisher
The Optical Society Journal
Optics ExpressAbstract
Optical-heterodyne measurements are made on ~842-nm signal output of an injection-seeded optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on periodically poled KTiOPO4 pumped at 532 nm by long (~27-ns) pulses from a Nd:YAG laser. At low pump energies (≤ 2.5 times the free-running threshold), the narrowband tunable OPO output is single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) and frequency chirp can be <10 MHz, much less than the transformlimited optical bandwidth (~17.5 MHz). We explore the transition from SLM operation to multimode operation as pump energy or phase mismatch are increased, causing unseeded cavity modes to build up later in the pulse
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