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High-efficiency frequency upconversion of 1.5 μm laser based on a doubly resonant external ring cavity with a low finesse for signal field

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A doubly resonant external ring cavity with a low finesse for the signal field is used to improve the frequency upconversion efficiency of a weak 1583 nm signal laser to 636 nm by mixing with a resonance power enhanced 1064 nm pump laser in a 25 mm periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. The process of frequency upconversion is described and optimized by the doubly resonant cavity-enhanced sum frequency generation theory under the condition of undepleted pump approximation. By selecting the suitable reflectivity of the signal input mirror and the incident pump power, a cavity-enhanced frequency conversion efficiency of 94.6% was obtained for signal powers up to 25 mW with an input pump power of 780 mW.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the 973 program (Grant No. 2012CB921603), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61675122, 61475093, 61404104, 61127017, 61178009, 61378047, 61275213, and 61205216), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province (Grant Nos. 2013021004-1, and 2012021022-1), the Shanxi Scholarship Council of China (2013-011, 2013-01), and the Program for the Outstanding Innovative Teams of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi. Weiguang Ma and Ove Axner would also like to acknowledge Umeå University’s program “Strong research environments” for support.

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  1. Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China

    Wei Tan, Xiaodong Qiu, Gang Zhao, Mengyuan Jia, Weiguang Ma, Lei Dong, Lei Zhang, Zhaomin Tong, Wangbao Yin, Liantuan Xiao & Suotang Jia

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China

    Wei Tan, Xiaodong Qiu, Gang Zhao, Mengyuan Jia, Weiguang Ma, Lei Dong, Lei Zhang, Zhaomin Tong, Wangbao Yin, Liantuan Xiao & Suotang Jia

  3. Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    Weiguang Ma & Ove Axner

  4. College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China

    Xiaojuan Yan

  5. Shanxi Polytechnic College, Taiyuan, 030006, China

    Xiaoxia Feng

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Tan, W., Qiu, X., Zhao, G. et al. High-efficiency frequency upconversion of 1.5 μm laser based on a doubly resonant external ring cavity with a low finesse for signal field . Appl. Phys. B 123, 52 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6626-2

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