High power Ytterbium pumped femtosecond Optical Parametric Oscillator
Domains
Health and wellbeing
Digital
Technology Modeling, simulation and numerical engineering
Applications
The potential application areas of OPOs are very diverse.
Some examples are:
- Multiphoton excitation,
- Terahertz imaging,
- Confocal microscopy,
- Atomic and molecular spectroscopy.
Description
- Our Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) pumped is based on fan poled OPO crystal pumped by a self-mode locked Yb:Fiber laser.
- It makes it possible to deliver sub-100 fs pulses which duration is limited by the spectrum.
- The central wavelength of the pulses is tunable from 1.3 µm to 1.95 µm and the average power is up to 2 W.
- The typical M2 is better than 1.2 and the repetition rate, typically in between 40 MHz and 100 MHz, is locked to pump laser.
- An easier option is available and makes it possible to cover the spectral ranging from 2.2 µm to 5 µm.
Benefits
- Sub 100 fs pulses,
- Cover the spectral ranging from 2.2 µm to 5 µm
- high average power (up tio 2W),
- fully automated,
- low-cost system
Inventors
Eric FREYSZ
Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine (LOMA, UMR 5796)
Contact
Matthieu AYFRE
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