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- Stoeppler, G., et al.
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Mid-infrared cascaded parametric source in 6 μm region for medical applications
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Ingår i: CLEO. - Washington, D.C. : Optica Publishing Group. ; , s. 6325539-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- All-diode-pumped parametric source generating 5ns pulses tunable in 6.27μm-8.12μm with high-spatial-quality beam and the pulse energy of 0.9 mJ is demonstrated. The device exploits large-aperture PPRKTP MOPA for pumping ZGP OPO in a RISTRA cavity.
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- Stoeppler, Georg, et al.
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Tunable Mid-infrared ZnGeP2 RISTRA OPO pumped by periodically-poled Rb:KTP optical parametric master-oscillator power amplifier
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Ingår i: Optics Express. - 1094-4087. ; 20:4, s. 4509-4517
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A laser-diode pumped Q-switched single-frequency Nd:YAG MOPA operating at 100 Hz was used to generate tunable mid-infrared radiation between 6.27 µm and 8.12 µm by employing a cascaded parametric arrangement consisting of degenerate parametric master-oscillator power amplifier using a large aperture periodically-poled Rb:KTiOPO4 which in turn pumped a ZnGeP2 (ZGP) nonplanar RISTRA OPO. The noncollinear ZGP RISTRA tuning behavior is elucidated. The device is aimed for minimally invasive surgery applications at 6.45 µm where the peak power of 193 kW in 5 ns pulses is demonstrated.
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- Thilmann, Nicky, 1981-, et al.
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A narrowband optical parametric oscillator tunable over 6.8 THz through degeneracy with a transversely-chirped volume Bragg grating
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Ingår i: Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics (Print). - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0946-2171 .- 1432-0649. ; 105:2, s. 239-244
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An efficient nanosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) with output energies of 0.75 mJ using a periodically poled KTiOPO(4) crystal pumped at 532 nm and generating narrowband output continuously tunable over the range of 6.8 THz, between 1053 nm and 1075 nm, is demonstrated by employing a transversely-chirped volume Bragg grating. The tunable reflectivity spectrum of the chirped volume Bragg grating allowed a smooth transition between singly-resonant and doubly-resonant operation of the OPO without cavity rearrangement. This gave a unique possibility to experimentally verify theoretical predictions regarding the efficiency of type-I and type-0 phase matched degenerate OPOs pumped by multimode Q-switched lasers.
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- Thilmann, Nicky, 1981-
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Highly efficient optical parametric oscillators in the mid-IR
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis shows how sources of coherent radiation in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region can be enhanced. To achieve this, optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) employing improved novel materials, new optical elements, and novel cavity designs have been implemented. Moreover, important measurements for the development of ultrashort-pulsed lasers were conducted. In turn, such lasers are suitable pump sources for the nonlinear conversion to the mid-IR.The mid-infrared spectral region is of interest for many applications in the areas of medicine, sensing, climate monitoring, and ranging. Here the target wavelength 6.45μm was especially interesting since it is considered particularly useful in surgical applications. Commercially available lasers perform poorly as pump sources for the generation of this wavelength. Therefore, a superior cascaded conversion scheme with large aperture crystals was implemented. In these, Rb-doped KTiOPO4(KTP) was employed since it was found that Rb-doping improves the poling properties of KTP. Moreover, for the conversion scheme to be efficient, a narrow-band out putspectrum of the OPO is required. It was shown here that this can successfully be achieved by utilizing a volume Bragg grating (VBG).Alternatively, for the direct generation of mid-IR radiation, KTiOAsO4(KTA) crystals with an extended transmission into the mid-IR as compared to KTP have been investigated. Novel room-temperature periodic-poling of KTA was shown and the fabricated crystals were successfully employed in a highly-efficient OPO.The newly developed pump sources based on the Rb-doped KTP crystals were successfully implemented in a cascaded OPO experiment. Here, a so-called RISTRA cavity was employed and high-energy nanosecond pulses at 6.45μm with improved beam quality were demonstrated.Pulsed lasers emitting at around 1μm, e.g. Yb-doped host materials, are frequently employed as pump sources of nonlinear optical conversion schemes. To allow further development of ultrashort pulsed Yb-doped double tungstate lasers, the nonlinear refractive index of several materials was measured. Among these are new materials which were for the first time characterized with regard to their nonlinear refractive index.In addition to the pulsed experiments above, a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal was employed to generate continuous-wave output. Even here, a volume Bragg grating was implemented and thereby demonstrated a novel method to control the threshold of the OPO. Thus, a stable high-energy highly-efficient OPO could be demonstrated.
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