Periodically poled lithium niobate optical parametric amplifier seeded with the narrow-band filtered output of an optical parametric generator

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作者：
Powers, PE [1 ]
Aniolek, KW
Kulp, TJ
Richman, BA
Bisson, SE
机构：
[1] Univ Dayton, Dept Phys, Dayton, OH 45469 USA
[2] Sandia Natl Labs, Combust Res Facil, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
来源：
OPTICS LETTERS | 1998年 / 23卷 / 24期
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D O I：
10.1364/OL.23.001886
中图分类号：
O43 [光学];
学科分类号：
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要：
The results of a simple scheme to generate continuously tunable pulsed narrow-bandwidth (less than 0.1 cm(-1)) light in the infrared are presented. A periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) optical parametric amplifier is seeded with the filtered output of a PPLN optical parametric generator. A high-finesse Fabry-Perot etalon is used as the filtering element, giving bandwidths as narrow as 0.08 cm(-1) and tunable over 18 cm(-1) without any adjustments to the PPLN crystals. High efficiency is obtained with a 15-ns 1-kHz Nd:YAG laser, giving energies of up to 180 mu J of signal at 1.6 mu m and 60 mu J of idler at 3.3 mu m. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America.
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页码：1886 / 1888
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