HIGH-EFFICIENCY OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATION AND POWER LIMITING IN LiNbO3

15 July 1968

journal article
conference paper
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 13 (2) , 57-59
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1652506

Abstract

Efficiencies of 36% have been observed for the conversion of pumping power to optical parametric oscillator (OPO) output power by pumping with the second harmonic of a pulsed single-mode laser. Previous reports which all used multimode pumps gave a maximum efficiency of about 1%. Unlike oscillators with multimode pumps, field amplitudes were observed to approach steady-state values and the OPO functioned as a power limiter for transmitted pump light. Good agreement has been found between theoretical and experimental conversion efficiencies.

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Tunable Coherent Parametric Oscillation in LiNb $O_{3}$ at Optical Frequencies
Physical Review Letters, 1965
Nonlinear Optical Effects: An Optical Power Limiter
Applied Optics, 1962