Generation of tuneable 589nm radiation as a Na guide star source using an optical parametric amplifier
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2009-01-06
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Duering, M
Kolev, Vesselin Z
Luther-Davies, Barry
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Optical Society of America
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We describe a 5.5W 589nm source based on a passively modelocked
Nd:YVO4 laser and a multi-stage Lithium Triborate optical
parametric amplifier seeded by a tuneable semiconductor laser. We show
this system can produce rapidly tuneable, transform-limited pulses in near
diffraction-limited beams at 589nm, useful for Na guide star applications.
The attraction of this scheme is that it can be assembled from commercially
available hardware and is readily scalable to high average powers.
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nonlinear optics, parametric processes
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Optics Express 17.2 (2009): 437 - 446
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