Precisely tunable narrowband mid-infrared mJ pulses from a backward wave optical parametric oscillator

Kjell Martin Mølster (1) , Marie Guionie (2) , Patrick Mutter (1) , Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt (2) , Jean-Michel Melkonian (2) , Xavier Delen (3) , Andrius Zukauskas (1) , Carlota Canalias (1) , Fredrik Laurell (1) , Patrick Georges (3) , Myriam Raybaut (2) , Antoine Godard (2) , Valdas Pasiskevicius (1)

1 KTH - KTH Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm]
2 DPHY, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay [Palaiseau]
3 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Lasers

Precision-tunable mJ, nanosecond pulses at 1981.1 nm and 2145.6 nm are generated at 5kHz repetition with an efficiency of 70% in a cavity-free arrangement using a PPRKTP BWOPO pumped by a narrowband DPSSL at 1030nm.

Keywords: Optical pumping

Keywords: INFRAROUGE MOYEN; POMPAGE OPTIQUE

Domains: Physics [physics]; Engineering Sciences [physics]

Kjell Martin Mølster, Marie Guionie, Patrick Mutter, Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt, Jean-Michel Melkonian, et al.. Precisely tunable narrowband mid-infrared mJ pulses from a backward wave optical parametric oscillator. Optica High-brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress 2022, Mar 2022, Budapest, Hungary. pp.MF4C.2, ⟨10.1364/MICS.2022.MF4C.2⟩. ⟨hal-04059690⟩