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We demonstrate that 3-mm-thick, periodically poled L i N b O 3 enables energy scaling of a nonresonant optical parametric oscillator operated in the narrowband mode with a volume Bragg grating at the signal wavelength. Utilizing the full available pump power at 1064 nm, we obtained maximum average powers of 2.25 and 2.08 W for the signal (1.922 µm) and idler (2.383 µm) pulses at 10 kHz, at a total conversion efficiency of 32.8%, which represents a fourfold increase in terms of peak powers over our previous work. The signal and idler spectral linewidths were â¼1n m, with pulse lengths of â¼6n s and an idler beam propagation factor of â¼5.
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We report on efficient midinfrared difference-frequency generation (DFG) in orientation-patterned GaAs by intracavity mixing the signal and idler pulses of a narrowband nanosecond optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled LiNbO3. The maximum average DFG output power reached 215 mW at 8.15 µm for a repetition rate of 35 kHz. The temperature tuning range spanned over 8026-8710 nm. The maximum overall conversion efficiency from 1 to 8 µm amounted to â¼1.3%.
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We report on a narrowband, nonresonant periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) optical parametric oscillator using a volume Bragg grating (VBG) as the spectral narrowing element. Pumping by a Nd:YVO4 laser at 1.06 µm, a maximum output power of 4.75 W is achieved at a repetition rate of 20 kHz for a conversion efficiency of 47.5%. Both signal and idler spectra are narrowed to less than 2 nm, at good beam quality and stability.