• DOI:10.1364/OL.21.001336
• Corpus ID: 3159008

93% pump depletion, 3.5-W continuous-wave, singly resonant optical parametric oscillator.

@article{Bosenberg199693PD,
  title={93\% pump depletion, 3.5-W continuous-wave, singly resonant optical parametric oscillator.},
  author={Walter Richard Bosenberg and Alexander D Drobshoff and Jason I. Alexander and Lawrence Edward Myers and Robert L. Byer},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={1996},
  volume={21 17},
  pages={
          1336-8
        }
}

• W. Bosenberg, A. Drobshoff, +2 authors R. Byer
• Published 1 September 1996
• Physics
• Optics letters

We report two cw, singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) configurations based on periodically poled lithium niobate that result in significantly higher efficiency and output power than in previous studies. Using four-mirror OPO cavities and pumping with a 1.064-microm Nd:YAG laser, we observe 93% pump depletion and obtain ~86% of the converted pump photons as useful idler output. The single-beam, in-the-bucket idler output power of 3.55 W at 3.25 microm corresponds to ~80% of quantum-limited performance. We measure and compare the amplitude noise and spectral bandwidth of the two configurations. We also demonstrate >1 W of tunable cw output over the 3.3-3.9-microm spectral range.