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Spectral properties and numerical modelling of a critically phase-matched nanosecond LiB3O5 Optical Parametric Oscillator

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We report on the spectral properties and numerical modelling of a singly resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) of Lithium-triBOrate (LBO). The OPO is pumped by the second, third or fourth harmonic of an injection-seeded,Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The measured OPO parameters are the tuning range, the threshold, the spectral linewidth, the efficiency and the output power. For the LBO-OPO critical type-I phase-matching (xy-plane) provides a wide tuning range and optimum values of the effective nonlinear coefficient. Pumped, for example, by the 355nm third harmonic the spectral range extends from 414 nm to 2.47 µm. With a 15 mm long crystal the OPO generates a total output-pulse energy of 77 mJ with an efficiency of 45%. For 266 nm pump radiation the signal wave is in the near ultraviolet at 307–325 nm. If pumped at 532 nm the OPO generates simultaneously two pairs of signal and idler waves in the infrared (0.707–2.15 µm). The pulse-energy fluctuations of the two pairs are correlated. If, however, the OPO is injection-seeded at one of the signal waves the two wavelength pairs are anti-correlated. The observed wavelength tuning as well as the measured spectral line-widths, threshold energies and efficiencies are in agreement with the values predicted by computer simulation.

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    T. Schröder, K. -J. Boller, A. Fix & R. Wallenstein

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Schröder, T., Boller, K.J., Fix, A. et al. Spectral properties and numerical modelling of a critically phase-matched nanosecond LiB3O5 Optical Parametric Oscillator. Appl. Phys. B 58, 425–438 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01081885

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