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EFFICIENT OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATION USING DOUBLY AND SINGLY RESONANT CAVITIES

John E. Bjorkholm

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Efficient room-temperature optical parametric oscillation was obtained using a single-mode, giant-pulse ruby laser to directly pump a crystal of LiNbO3 placed in an optical cavity resonant at both the signal and idler wavelengths and also in a cavity resonant at only the signal wavelength. For the doubly resonant oscillator, 22% of the pump power was converted into signal power; for the singly resonant oscillator, conversion was 6%. The behavior of both oscillators was reproducible. Several features of the oscillator dynamics are discussed.

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Efficient room-temperature optical parametric oscillation was obtained using a single-mode, giant-pulse ruby laser to directly pump a crystal of LiNbO3 placed in an optical cavity resonant at both the signal and idler wavelengths and also in a cavity resonant at only the signal wavelength. For the doubly resonant oscillator, 22% of the pump power was converted into signal power; for the singly resonant oscillator, conversion was 6%. The behavior of both oscillators was reproducible. Several features of the oscillator dynamics are discussed.

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Efficient room-temperature optical parametric oscillation was obtained using a single-mode, giant-pulse ruby laser to directly pump a crystal of LiNbO3 placed in an optical cavity resonant at both the signal and idler wavelengths and also in a cavity resonant at only the signal wavelength. For the doubly resonant oscillator, 22% of the pump power was converted into signal power; for the singly resonant oscillator, conversion was 6%. The behavior of both oscillators was reproducible. Several features of the oscillator dynamics are discussed.

Key concepts: Optical parametric oscillator, Oscillation (cell signaling), Parametric oscillator, SIGNAL (programming language), Optics, Wavelength, Laser, Optical pumping

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