• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 18, Issue 3, 033201 (2020)
Jiajun Song1、2, Xianghao Meng1、2, Zhaohua Wang1、*, Xianzhi Wang1、2, Wenlong Tian4, Jiangfeng Zhu4, Shaobo Fang1, Hao Teng1, and Zhiyi Wei1、2、3、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
  • 4School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202018.033201 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jiajun Song, Xianghao Meng, Zhaohua Wang, Xianzhi Wang, Wenlong Tian, Jiangfeng Zhu, Shaobo Fang, Hao Teng, Zhiyi Wei. Harmonically pump a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator to 1.13 GHz by a femtosecond 515 nm laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(3): 033201 Copy Citation Text show less
    Experimental setup for the 1.13 GHz ring cavity OPO. DM1,2: dichroic mirror, HWP1,2: half-wave plate, PBS: polarizing beam splitter, L1: lens of f=100 mm, CM1, CM2: concave spherical mirrors, M1: plane mirror, OC: 3% output coupler.
    Fig. 1. Experimental setup for the 1.13 GHz ring cavity OPO. DM1,2: dichroic mirror, HWP1,2: half-wave plate, PBS: polarizing beam splitter, L1: lens of f=100mm, CM1, CM2: concave spherical mirrors, M1: plane mirror, OC: 3% output coupler.
    (a) Output power of the signal at 720 nm versus the pump power, and (b) the normalized signal tuning range and the corresponding average power.
    Fig. 2. (a) Output power of the signal at 720 nm versus the pump power, and (b) the normalized signal tuning range and the corresponding average power.
    (a) Pulse train of the pump laser, (b) pulse train of the 1.13 GHz signal pulses, which is 15 times that of the pump laser, and (c) the RF spectrum of the 1.13 GHz signal laser at a 2.5 GHz span with a 1 MHz resolution.
    Fig. 3. (a) Pulse train of the pump laser, (b) pulse train of the 1.13 GHz signal pulses, which is 15 times that of the pump laser, and (c) the RF spectrum of the 1.13 GHz signal laser at a 2.5 GHz span with a 1 MHz resolution.
    (a) Measured signal pulse temporal profile at 780 nm and corresponding spectrum, and (b) measured spatial profile of a 1.13 GHz signal laser.
    Fig. 4. (a) Measured signal pulse temporal profile at 780 nm and corresponding spectrum, and (b) measured spatial profile of a 1.13 GHz signal laser.
    Red curve, phase noise PSD of the signal from 1 Hz to 10 MHz. Blue curve, phase noise PSD of the pump from 1 Hz to 10 MHz. Black curve, IPN of the signal from 1 Hz to 10 MHz.
    Fig. 5. Red curve, phase noise PSD of the signal from 1 Hz to 10 MHz. Blue curve, phase noise PSD of the pump from 1 Hz to 10 MHz. Black curve, IPN of the signal from 1 Hz to 10 MHz.
    CrystalBBOLBO (x-y plane)BIBO (y-z plane)
    deff(pm/V)2.030.8382.86
    Table 1. Comparison of the deff for different nonlinear crystals (515  nm→750  nm+1643.6  nm)
    Jiajun Song, Xianghao Meng, Zhaohua Wang, Xianzhi Wang, Wenlong Tian, Jiangfeng Zhu, Shaobo Fang, Hao Teng, Zhiyi Wei. Harmonically pump a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator to 1.13 GHz by a femtosecond 515 nm laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(3): 033201
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