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Mid-infrared Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillator with a Fan-out Grating MgO:PPLN Operating Up to 5.3 ㎛

  • Bae, In-Ho (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Yoo, Jae-Keun (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Lim, Sun Do (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Kim, Seung Kwan (Quantum Technology Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) ;
  • Lee, Dong-Hoon (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
  • Received : 2019.08.26
  • Accepted : 2019.10.18
  • Published : 2019.12.25
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Abstract

We report on a continuous-wave (cw) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) optimized for mid-infrared emission above 5.0 ㎛. The OPO is based on a magnesium-oxide-doped periodically poled LiNbO3(MgO:PPLN) crystal with a fan-out grating design. A linear two-mirror cavity resonating both at the pump and signal wavelengths is stabilized to the pump laser by using the modified Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method. The idler wavelength is continuously tunable from 4.7 ㎛ up to 5.3 ㎛ by varying the poling period of the fan-out grating crystal. Pumped by a diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) laser with a power of 1.1 W at 1064 nm, the maximum idler output power is measured to be 5.3 mW at 4.8 ㎛. The output power above 5.0 ㎛ is reduced to the hundreds of ㎼ level due to increased absorption in the crystal, but is stable and strong enough to be measured with a conventional detector.

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