0.5-W Few-Cycle Frequency Comb at 4 μm from an Efficient Simulton-based Optical Parametric Oscillator

Liu, Mingchen; Gray, Robert M.; Roy, Arkadev; Ingold, Kirk A.; Sorokin, Evgeni; Sorokina, Irina; Schunemann, Peter G.; Marandi, Alireza

0.5-W Few-Cycle Frequency Comb at 4 μm from an Efficient Simulton-based Optical Parametric Oscillator

Date

2021

Authors

Publisher

Optica Publishing Group

Abstract

We report generation of three-cycle pulses at 4.18 μm with 565-mW average power, 900-nm instantaneous FWHM bandwidth, 350% slope efficiency, and 44% conversion efficiency, based on a half-harmonic optical parametric oscillator operating in simulton regime.

Keywords

Optical Parametric Oscillator

Citation

M. Liu, R. M. Gray, A. Roy, K. A. Ingold, E. Sorokin, I. Sorokina, P. G. Schunemann, and A. Marandi, "0.5-W Few-Cycle Frequency Comb at 4 μm from an Efficient Simulton-based Optical Parametric Oscillator," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, J. Kang, S. Tomasulo, I. Ilev, D. Müller, N. Litchinitser, S. Polyakov, V. Podolskiy, J. Nunn, C. Dorrer, T. Fortier, Q. Gan, and C. Saraceno, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2021), paper STh1L.3.