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Realizing compact picosecond Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPOs) capable of generating high-energy mid-IR pulses at MHz repetition rates is a challenge due to the correspondingly long cavity length requirements. Intracavity fiber delay lines can be used to increase the cavity length but the achievable peak powers are then severely constrained by fiber nonlinearity.
Here we report a compact, ytterbium-fiber-laser pumped, periodically poled lithium niobate based OPO that incorporates a 298 m length of hollow-core-fiber as an ultralow nonlinearity intracavity delay line. The OPO is capable of generating 1-MHz, 100-ps mid-IR pulses with an energy of 1.64-μJ and 12.8-kW peak power.
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Yudi Wu, Sijing Liang, Qiang Fu, Thomas Bradley, Lin Xu, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson, "High-energy, mid-IR, short-pulsed, hollow-core-fiber-feedback OPO," Proc. SPIE PC11985, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials and Devices XXI, PC119850W (1 April 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2607864