Abstract
Efficient picosecond optical parametric oscillation in LiB3O5 is demonstrated using ∼55 ps pump pulses at 523.5 nm, obtained from a frequency-doubled, mode-locked, Q-switched, diode-laser-pumped Nd:YLF laser. By exploiting temperature tuning under noncritical type I phase matching, continuously tunable radiation over the range 0.909–1.235 μm has been generated at external power conversion efficiencies approaching 50%. The oscillator has a pump power threshold of 4.5 mW, corresponding to a Q-switched pulse energy of 9 μJ, and can provide a total average output power of 8 mW at 500 Hz, in pulses of ∼33 ps duration. At five times above threshold, the internal pump depletion of the oscillator was 54%.
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