Abstract
We report a widely tunable near-infrared holosteric KTiOPO4 optical parametric converter featuring a low pump energy threshold and high conversion efficiency. The converter uses two 10-mm-long crystals in a simple optical parametric oscillator amplifier configuration and is tunable from 750 to 1040 nm for the signal. The pump energy threshold at 920 nm is 0.44 mJ for the 532-nm 8-ns 50-Hz input. The system produces as much as 0.45 mJ of energy at 920 nm with an external pump-to-signal energy conversion efficiency of 27% for pump inputs from just two times the threshold value. The internal pump-to-signal and idler energy conversion efficiency is estimated to be 58%. The low pump energy requirement of this system makes it compatible with small laser-diode-pumped solid-state lasers.
© 1995 Optical Society of America
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