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High-repetition-rate eye-safe optical parametric oscillator intracavity pumped by a diode-pumped Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser

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A high-repetition-rate eye-safe optical parametric oscillator (OPO), using a non-critically phase-matched KTP crystal intracavity pumped by an acousto-optically (AO) Q-switchedNd:YVO4 laser, is experimentally demonstrated. It is found that the average OPO signal power at 1573 nm can be efficiently increased by increasing the pulse repetition rate. Moreover, the intracavity OPO process effectively shortens the pulse width so that it is in the range 5∼8 ns for pulse repetition rates of 10 to 80 kHz. As a result of the relatively short pulse, the peak power at 1573 nm is higher than 2 kW at a pulse repetition rate of 80 kHz.

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  1. Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 TA Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 30050, Taiwan R.O.C., , , , , , TW

    Y.F. Chen & S.W. Chen

  2. Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan R.O.C., , , , , , TW

    S.W. Tsai & Y.P. Lan

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Received: 10 July 2002 / Published online: 26 February 2003

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Chen, Y., Chen, S., Tsai, S. et al. High-repetition-rate eye-safe optical parametric oscillator intracavity pumped by a diode-pumped Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser . Appl Phys B 76, 263–266 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-002-1086-2

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