Field enhancement in an doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator

authored by
C. M. Dietrich, I. Babushkin, J. R.C. Andrade, L. Rust, U. Morgner
Abstract

One of the approaches to generate strong fields with femtosecond optical pulses is to use enhancement in a cavity [1]. With intracavity-enhanced fields, one can ionize gases for high harmonic experiments in the MHz repetition rate regime [2]. Here we present an optical setup where strong fields are produced by a nonlinear optical down-conversion within an OPO cavity. The cavity is doubly resonant for signal and idler (doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator, DROPO). Our DROPO is pumped by a home-built Yb:YAG Kerr-lens mode-locked thin-disk laser oscillator with up to 35 W of average power, 32.5 MHz repetition rate and 270 fs pulse duration; A Brewster cut BBO crystal is used as an intracavity nonlinear medium to drive the DROPO.

Organisation(s)
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
Institute of Quantum Optics
External Organisation(s)
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy im Forschungsbund Berlin e.V. (MBI)
Type
Conference contribution
Publication date
2019
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Spectroscopy, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computer Networks and Communications
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2019.8872749 (Access: Closed)