High average power, widely tunable femtosecond laser source from red to mid-infrared based on an Yb-fiber-laser-pumped optical parametric oscillator.

@article{Gu2013HighAP,
  title={High average power, widely tunable femtosecond laser source from red to mid-infrared based on an Yb-fiber-laser-pumped optical parametric oscillator.},
  author={Chenglin Gu and Minglie Hu and Limeng Zhang and Jintao Fan and Youjian Song and Ching-yue Wang and Derryck Telford Reid},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={2013},
  volume={38 11},
  pages={
          1820-2
        }
}
We report on the highly efficient generation of widely tunable femtosecond pulses based on intracavity second harmonic generation (SHG) and sum frequency generation (SFG) in a MgO-doped periodically poled LiNbO(3) optical parametric oscillator (OPO), which is pumped by a Yb-doped large-mode-area photonics crystal fiber femtosecond laser. Red and near infrared from intracavity SHG and SFG and infrared signals were directly obtained from the OPO. A 2 mm β-BaB(2)O(4) is applied for Type I (oo → e… 
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