Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 13, Issue 1, 011901(2015)

Efficient femtosecond optical parametric oscillator pumped by all solid-state mode-locking Yb:YCOB laser

Wenlong Tian1, Jiangfeng Zhu1, Zhaohua Wang2, and Zhiyi Wei2
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  • 1School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
  • 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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    We experimentally demonstrate a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) synchronously pumped by a home-made solid-state mode-locking Yb:YCOB laser, which is capable of laser pulse as short as 102 fs and average power of 620 mW at the central wavelength of 1052 nm. By using a periodically poled lithium niobate with tuning of the grating periods from 28.5 to 31.5 μm as the nonlinear gain crystal, tunable femtosecond pulses from 1444 to 1683 nm are realized by conveniently adjusting the OPO cavity length with 76.8 MHz repetition rate. The maximum average output power is 152 mW at 1568 nm, corresponding to an idler power of 75 mW at 3197 nm as well as 36.6% total extraction efficiency.

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    Wenlong Tian, Jiangfeng Zhu, Zhaohua Wang, Zhiyi Wei, "Efficient femtosecond optical parametric oscillator pumped by all solid-state mode-locking Yb:YCOB laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 13, 011901 (2015)

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    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Sep. 3, 2014

    Accepted: Nov. 14, 2014

    Published Online: Jan. 4, 2015

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    DOI:10.3788/col201513.011901

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