Incoherently pumped continuous wave optical parametric oscillator broadened by non-collinear phasematching

Jelle Storteboom; Chris J Lee; Ab F Nieuwenhuis; Ian D Lindsay; Klaus-J Boller

doi:10.1364/OE.19.021786

Incoherently pumped continuous wave optical parametric oscillator broadened by non-collinear phasematching

Opt Express. 2011 Oct 24;19(22):21786-92. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.021786.

Authors

Jelle Storteboom¹, Chris J Lee, Ab F Nieuwenhuis, Ian D Lindsay, Klaus-J Boller

Affiliation

¹ Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics Group, MESA+ Research Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands.

PMID: 22109029
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021786

Abstract

In this paper, we report on a singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) pumped by an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) source. The pump focusing conditions allow non-collinear phasematching, which resulted in a 230 nm (190 cm(-1)) spectral bandwidth. Calculations indicate that such phasematching schemes may be used to further broaden OPO spectral bandwidths.