Tunable narrowband MIR ns-pulses at 5 kHz repetition from a 70% efficient backward wave OPO pumped at 1030 nm

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 Department of Applied Physics [Stockholm]
2 DPHY, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay [Palaiseau]
3 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Lasers

Precision-tuned nanosecond pulses at 1981.1 nm and 2145.6 nm are generated from a PPKTP BWOPO with 70% efficiency, pumped by an amplified single-frequency fiber laser at 1030 nm. It is free from mechanically-adjustable optical cavities.

Keywords: OPO; LASER

Domains: Optics / Photonic

Kjell Martin Mølster, Marie Guionie, Patrick Mutter, Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt, Jean-Michel Melkonian, et al.. Tunable narrowband MIR ns-pulses at 5 kHz repetition from a 70% efficient backward wave OPO pumped at 1030 nm. 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2022), May 2022, San Jose, CA, United States. ⟨10.1364/CLEO_SI.2022.SM3O.3⟩. ⟨hal-04105499⟩