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Optical parametric oscillation using KTA nonlinear crystals

US5371752A · kind A · utility

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Inventors

Peter E. Powers · Livermore, US
Lap K. Cheng · Bear, US
Wayne S. Pelouch · McKinney, US
Chung L. Tang · Ithaca, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 1, 1993
Grant date	Dec 6, 1994
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 1, 2013

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02F1/39
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A continuous wave tunable femtosecond optical parametric oscillator includes an oscillator cavity including a pumping cavity. A nonlinear KTiOAsO.sub.4 crystal (KTA) is located in the pumping cavity and is pumped by a Ti:sapphire laser to produce output pulses having widths as short as 85 femtoseconds at wavelengths in the range 1.0 .mu.m to 5.0 .mu.m.

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