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High-energy picosecond kHz optical parametric oscillator/amplifier tunable between 3 and 3.5 µm

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We present a mid-IR tunable high-energy kHz optical parametric oscillator/amplifier (OPO/OPA) based on periodically poled stoichiometric lithium tantalate (PPSLT) nonlinear crystals. These two frequency conversion stages are pumped by a 1-µm-Nd-based master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system generating 800 ps pulses at 0.5 kHz with energy scalable up to ~ 40 mJ. The OPO/OPA stages are temperature tunable between 3 and 3.5 µm and provide pulses with energy 4.1 mJ and pulse duration of 600 ps.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge financial support from Bulgarian National Science Fund under grant number DNTS 01/9/2016, bilateral research project R.Bulgaria–P.R.China. We are grateful to Stuart Samuelson and Dimitar Shumov at Deltronic Crystal Industries NJ, USA for manufacturing of wide-aperture PPSLT elements.

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  1. Department of Physics, Sofia University, 5 James Bourchier Blvd., 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria

    D. Chuchumishev, B. Oreshkov & I. Buchvarov

  2. IBPhotonics Ltd, 19A Plovdivsko Pole St., 1756, Sofia, Bulgaria

    A. Trifonov

  3. Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    X. Xu

  4. ITMO University, 197101, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    I. Buchvarov

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This article is part of the topical collection “Mid-infrared and THz Laser Sources and Applications” guest edited by Wei Ren, Paolo De Natale and Gerard Wysocki.

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Chuchumishev, D., Trifonov, A., Oreshkov, B. et al. High-energy picosecond kHz optical parametric oscillator/amplifier tunable between 3 and 3.5 µm. Appl. Phys. B 124, 147 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-018-7009-7

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