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The operation of a continuous-wave mode-locked silver gallium selenide (AgGaSe2) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is reported. The OPO was synchronously excited by 120-fs-long pulses of 1.55-μm radiation at a repetition rate of 82 MHz. The 1.55-μm radiation is generated by a noncritically phasematched cesium-titanyl-arsenate (CTA)-OPO pumped by a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser. The AgGaSe2-OPO generates signal and idler radiation in the range from 1.93 μm to 2.49 μm and from 4.1 μm to 7.9 μm, respectively. Up to 67 mW of signal wave output power has been obtained. The experimentally determined pulse duration and chirp parameters are in reasonable agreement with results from a numerical model taking into account group velocity mismatch, group velocity dispersion, self phase modulation, and chirp enhancement.
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Received: 6 August 1999 / Revised version: 4 October 1999 / Published online: 3 November 1999
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Marzenell, S., Beigang, R. & Wallenstein, R. Synchronously pumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator based on AgGaSe2 tunable from 2 μm to 8 μm. Appl Phys B 69, 423–428 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050830
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050830