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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 52-55Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.41.000052
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- European Commission (EC) [H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014]
- European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) [FA8655-12-1-2128]
- Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia) [VALTEC13-1-0003]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [TEC2012-37853]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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We report a stable, Yb-fiber-laser-based, green-pumped, picosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) for the near-infrared based on periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) nonlinear crystal, using fan-out grating design and operating near room temperature. The OPO is continuously tunable across 726-955 nm in the signal and 1201-1998 nm in the idler, resulting in a total signal plus idler wavelength coverage of 1026 nm by grating tuning at a fixed temperature. The device generates up to 580 mW of average power in the signal at 765 nm and 300 mW in the idler at 1338 nm, with an overall extraction efficiency of up to 52% and a pump depletion > 76%. The extracted signal at 765 nm and idler at 1746 nm exhibit excellent passive power stability better than 0.5% and 0.8% rms, respectively, over 1 h with good beam quality in TEM00 mode profile. The output signal pulses have a Gaussian temporal duration of 13.2 ps, with a FWHM spectral bandwidth of 3.4 nm at 79.5 MHz repetition rate. Power scaling limitations of the OPO due to the material properties of PPKTP are studied. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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