High pulse energy and symmetrical far field from an optical parametric oscillator in the red spectral range

G. Rustad; O. Farsund

doi:10.2971/jeos.2011.11058

Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid publications, Vol 6 (2011)

High pulse energy and symmetrical far field from an optical parametric oscillator in the red spectral range

G. Rustad, O. Farsund

Abstract

Red pulses with >30 mJ energy and <0.6 nm bandwidth have been demonstrated using a type 2 phase matched optical parametric oscillator pumped at 532 nm. A symmetrical signal beam with beam diameter-divergence product of ~3 mm•mrad was obtained by applying KTA and BBO crystals in the same resonator

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