High beam quality optical parametric oscillator
US6101022A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 22, 1998 |
| Grant date | Aug 8, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 22, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02F1/39
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An optical parametric oscillator comprising two meniscus mirrors disposed on opposite sides of a nonlinear medium that forms a confocal unstable resonator. A reduced-to-practice embodiment uses concave-convex mirrors in a confocal arrangement disposed on opposite sides of a KTP crystal used as the nonlinear medium. The optical parametric oscillator and confocal unstable resonator of the present invention exhibits improved beam divergence angles.
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