Abstract

We report herein the enhancement in both power and efficiency performance of a continuous-wave intra-cavity singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (ICSRO) by introducing finite resonant wave output coupling. While coupling out the resonant wave to useful output, the output coupling increases the SRO threshold properly thus suppresses the back-conversion under high pump power. Therefore, the down-conversion efficiency is maintained under high pump without having to raise the threshold by defocusing. With a T = 9.6% signal wave output coupler used, the SRO threshold is 2.46 W and the down-conversion efficiency is 72.9% under the maximum pump power of 21.4 W. 1.43 W idler power at 3.66 μm and 5.03 W signal power at 1.5 μm are obtained, corresponding to a total extraction efficiency of 30.2%. The resonant wave out coupling significantly levels up the upper limit for the power range where the ICSRO exhibits high efficiency, without impeding its advantage of low threshold.

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S. C. Kumar, R. Das, G. K. Samanta, and M. Ebrahim-Zadeh, “Optimally-output-coupled, 17.5 W, fiber-laser-pumped continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator,” Appl. Phys. B 102(1), 31–35 (2011).
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[Crossref]

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1971 (1)

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1969 (1)

S. E. Harris, “Tunable optical parametric oscillators,” Proc. IEEE 57(12), 2096–2113 (1969).
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[Crossref]

Bosenberg, W. R.

Bretenaker, F.

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

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[Crossref]

Hopkins, J.-M.

Kumar, S. C.

S. C. Kumar, R. Das, G. K. Samanta, and M. Ebrahim-Zadeh, “Optimally-output-coupled, 17.5 W, fiber-laser-pumped continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator,” Appl. Phys. B 102(1), 31–35 (2011).
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Li, B.

My, T.-H.

Myers, L. E.

Samanta, G. K.

Shang, C.

Sheng, Q.

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Turnbull, G. A.

T. J. Edwards, G. A. Turnbull, M. H. Dunn, M. Ebrahimzadeh, and F. G. Colville, “High-power, continuous-wave, singly resonant, intracavity optical parametric oscillator,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 72(13), 1527–1529 (1998).
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Wen, W.

Yao, J.

Yin, S.

Yu, X.

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S. C. Kumar, R. Das, G. K. Samanta, and M. Ebrahim-Zadeh, “Optimally-output-coupled, 17.5 W, fiber-laser-pumped continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator,” Appl. Phys. B 102(1), 31–35 (2011).
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T. J. Edwards, G. A. Turnbull, M. H. Dunn, M. Ebrahimzadeh, and F. G. Colville, “High-power, continuous-wave, singly resonant, intracavity optical parametric oscillator,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 72(13), 1527–1529 (1998).
[Crossref]

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Figures (5)
Fig. 1
Fig. 1 Schematic illustration of the experiment setup.

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Fig. 2
Fig. 2 SRO idler output power versus absorbed LD pump power when the SRO cavity is optimized for lowest threshold (solid circles) and maximum idler power (squares).

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Fig. 3
Fig. 3 SRO idler output power and down-converted power with different signal output coupler transmittances versus absorbed LD power (cavities optimized for lowest threshold).

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Fig. 4 Theoretical and measured SRO down-conversion efficiencies with different signal output coupler transmittances versus absorbed LD power (cavities optimized for lowest threshold)

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Fig. 5
Fig. 5 SRO idler, signal and total output powers and corresponding extraction efficiencies with the two output couplers versus absorbed LD power

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P th SRO = P th L ⋅ P in ,

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