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Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, Proceedings of SPIE, 2014

DOI: 10.1117/12.2053986

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Mid-infrared frequency comb generation using a continuous-wave pumped optical parametric oscillator

Journal article published in 2014 by Markku Vainio, Ville Ulvila, Cr R. Phillips ORCID, Lauri Halonen
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Abstract

We report a mid-infrared frequency comb generator, which produces up to 3 W of output power. The comb mode spacing is 208 MHz, the spectral bandwidth is ~300 GHz, and the center wavelength is tunable between 3 and 3.4 μm. The comb generation is based on intracavity difference frequency mixing between near-infrared pump and signal beams of a continuous-wave-pumped optical parametric oscillator. The signal beam, which is resonant in the cavity, acquires a comb structure through cascading quadratic nonlinearities in a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. This comb structure is transferred to the spectrum of the mid-infrared idler beam via the difference frequency mixing process.