Single-mode, tunable output from a midwave-infrared-seeded optical parametric oscillator system |
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Authors: | Marquardt John H Mackes Ross W Smith Duane D |
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Affiliation: | Coherent Technologies, Incorporated, Boulder, Colorado 80306, USA. john@ctilidar.com |
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Abstract: | We have built a coupled master oscillator and a slave oscillator optical parametric oscillator (OPO) system that provides single-frequency, pulsed radiation in the midwave infrared (MWIR). The direct-diode-pumped master OPO provided narrow-band (<6-MHz, instrument-limited), tunable MWIR cw radiation that was used to seed a higher-peak-power pulsed slave OPO. When seeded directly at the MWIR idler, the pulsed output of the slave OPO was constrained to oscillate on a single longitudinal mode even though the slave OPO is pumped by a multilongitudinal-mode laser source. The linewidth of the pulsed output has been measured to be <220 MHz (instrument limited), which is well suited for coherent differential absorption lidar applications. |
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