Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped By a Nanosecond-to-Microsecond Pulsewidth-Tunable Source

Guillaume Aoust (1) , Caroline Couvin (1) , Xavier Délen (2) , Myriam Raybaut (1) , Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt (1) , Jean-Michel Melkonian (1) , Guillaume Gorju (1) , François Balembois (2) , Patrick Georges (2) , Antoine Godard (1)

1 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Palaiseau]
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Lasers

Optimal pumping parameters for a singly resonant optical parametric oscillator are experimentally investigated using a hybrid master oscillator-power amplifier pump laser whose pulsewidth is varied from 4 ns to 4 µs and analyzed with modeling.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Guillaume Aoust, Caroline Couvin, Xavier Délen, Myriam Raybaut, Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt, et al.. Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped By a Nanosecond-to-Microsecond Pulsewidth-Tunable Source. 2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2016), Jun 2016, San Jose, CA, United States. pp.STh1P.8, ⟨10.1364/CLEO_SI.2016.STh1P.8⟩. ⟨hal-01583521⟩