Numerical models of broad-bandwidth nanosecond optical parametric oscillators
- Department 1128, Lasers, Optics and Remote Sensing, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1423 (United States)
- Aculight Corporation, 11805 North Creek Parkway South, Suite 113, Bothell, Washington 98011 (United States)
We present three new methods for modeling broad-bandwidth, nanosecond optical parametric oscillators in the plane-wave approximation. Each accounts for the group-velocity differences that determine the operating linewidth of unseeded optical parametric oscillators, and each allows the signal and the idler waves to develop from quantum noise. The first two methods are based on split-step integration methods in which nonlinear mixing and propagation are calculated separately on alternate steps. One method relies on Fourier transforming the fields between {ital t} and {omega} to handle propagation, with mixing integrated over a {Delta}z step; the other transforms between {ital z} and k{sub z} in the propagation step, with mixing integrated over {Delta}t. The third method is based on expansion of the three optical fields in terms of their respective longitudinal empty cavity modes, taking into account the cavity boundary conditions. Equations describing the time development of the mode amplitudes are solved to yield the time dependence of the three output fields. These models exclude diffraction and group-velocity dispersion but can be readily extended to include them. {copyright} 1999 Optical Society of America
- OSTI ID:
- 335586
- Journal Information:
- Journal of the Optical Society of America, Part B: Optical Physics, Vol. 16, Issue 4; Other Information: PBD: Apr 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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