Passive Mode Locking of Optical Parametric Oscillators: an Efficient Technique for Generating Sub-Picosecond Pulses

J. B. Khurgin; J-M. Melkonian; A. Godard; M. Lefebvre; E. Rosencher; E. Rosencher

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008),
paper CMBB1

Passive Mode Locking of Optical Parametric Oscillators: an Efficient Technique for Generating Sub-Picosecond Pulses

J. B. Khurgin, J-M. Melkonian, A. Godard, M. Lefebvre, and E. Rosencher

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2008

San Jose, California United States
4–9 May 2008
ISBN: 978-1-55752-859-9

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J. B. Khurgin, J. Melkonian, A. Godard, M. Lefebvre, and E. Rosencher, "Passive Mode Locking of Optical Parametric Oscillators: an Efficient Technique for Generating Sub-Picosecond Pulses," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008), paper CMBB1.

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Abstract

We show that gain in an OPO with a large walkoff between the pump and signal saturates just like a laser gain and thus CW pumped OPO can be directly mode-locked with high conversion efficiency.

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