Generation of bandwidth-limited tunable picosecond pulses by injection- locked parametric oscillators
We report a new Nd:YAG-pumped picosecond optical parametric oscillator that generates bandwidth-limited pulses. Using two LiNbO/sub 3/ crystals, it produces tunable, near-1.4-..mu..m (signal-wave) pulses of 18-psec duration and ..delta nu.. = 1.2 cm/sup -1/ FWHM (..delta nu..tau = 0.7). The output energy of the optical parametric oscillators in a signal wave is no less than 2 mJ with 10% energy stability. The key to this device is the injection of cw single-frequency GaAs diode-laser radiation. Using the injection of diode-laser radiation, we have measured the spectral intensity of a quantun noise at lambda = 0.85 ..mu..m. The intensity was found to be 6 +- 2 W/cm/sup 2/ cm/sup -1/ sr (theoretical value, 4.7 W/cm/sup 2/ cm/sup -1/ sr).
- Research Organization:
- All-Union Research Institute of Optical Physical Research Measurements, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR
- OSTI ID:
- 6176273
- Journal Information:
- Opt. Lett.; (United States), Vol. 11:1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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