High-Efficiency Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Pulse Shaping

Yulei Wang; Hang Yuan; Qingzheng Wang; Chengyu Zhu; Hengkang Zhang; Keyu Chen

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2932034

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2019)

High-Efficiency Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Pulse Shaping

Yulei Wang,
Hang Yuan,
Qingzheng Wang,
Chengyu Zhu,
Hengkang Zhang,
Keyu Chen

Affiliations

Yulei Wang: National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Hang Yuan: ORCiD; National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Qingzheng Wang: National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Chengyu Zhu: National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Hengkang Zhang: National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Keyu Chen: National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2932034
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 4
pp. 1 – 9

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We present an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) that uses a pump pulse shape tailored by stimulated Brillouin scattering. The theoretical analysis is carried out for comparison between Gaussian pump and the step function pulse pump. The steep leading edge of the pulse helps minimize the buildup time of the OPO when applied to step function pulse. The study then focuses on obtaining step function pulse through stimulated Brillouin scattering pulse compression. With this control of the pump pulse's temporal shape, the experimental OPO energy conversion efficiency is 34.3%. Compared with an OPO pumped by a Gaussian-shaped pulse, the oscillation threshold is reduced and the energy conversion efficiency is improved by around 10%.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
Website: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563994

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