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通过单次穿过PPMgO:LN晶体产生了2.06 W的780 nm可调谐的连续倍频光. 采用1560 nm的分布反馈式(DFB)半导体激光器、光栅外腔半导体激光器(ECDL)和分布反馈式掺铒光纤激光器(DFB-EDFL)分别作为掺铒光纤放大器(EDFA)的注入光源, 所用的EDFA具有保持窄线宽的功能, 因此可以忽略它对基波线宽的展宽. 研究了激光线宽对单次通过PPMgO:LN 晶体的倍频效率的影响. 控制三台激光器各自注入EDFA的功率一致, 同时也保持EDFA 的输出功率. 在基波功率为12.42 W 时, 使用DFB半导体激光器注入EDFA时得到了1.36 W的780 nm倍频光输出, 转换效率为11.0%; 使用ECDL作为种子源时得到了1.78 W 的780 nm倍频光输出, 转换效率为14.3%; 使用DFB-EDFL作为种子源时得到了2.06 W的780 nm倍频光输出, 转换效率为16.6%. 测得三台种子激光器的线宽分别为1.2 MHz (DFB), 200 kHz (ECDL)和600 Hz (DFB-EDFL). 线宽越窄, 倍频效率越高, 实验结果与理论分析一致.We report on the generation of 2.06 W of tunable cw light at 780 nm by a single-pass frequency doubling in a PPMgO:LN crystal with a seeded high-power fiber amplifier. A 1560 nm distributed feedback (DFB) diode laser, a Littman-type grating external-cavity diode laser (ECDL) and a DFB-type erbium-doped fiber laser (DFB-EDFL) were separately used as a seeding laser source of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). Here we use the EDFA which has a narrow linewidth option, the fundamental frequency light will not be obviously broadened. The influence of laser linewidth on the conversion efficiency of frequency doubling is investigated. The injection power and output power of EDFA must be consistent. So when temperature of the PPMgO:LN crystal is fixed, the conversion efficiency for different seeding resources can be obtained as follows. When the fundamental power is 12.42 W, using the DFB as seeding resource yields 1.36 W of 780 nm doubling output, and the corresponding conversion efficiency is 11.0%. Using the ECDL as seeding source yields 1.78 W of 780 nm doubling output, and the corresponding conversion efficiency is 14.3%. While using the DFB-EDFL as seeding source yields 2.06 W of 780 nm doubling output, and the conversion efficiency is 16.6%. The measured laser linewidths of the three seeding sources are 1.2 MHz, 200 kHz, and 600 Hz for the DFB, ECDL, and DFB-EDFL, respectively. The experimental results show that the narrower laser linewidth, the higher doubling efficiency, and the experimental results agree with our theoretical analysis.
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Keywords:
- frequency doubling /
- laser linewidth /
- conversion efficiency
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[1] Thompson R J, Tu M, Aveline D C, Lundblad N, Maleki L 2003 Opt. Express 11 1709
[2] Arnoldus H F, George T F 1987 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4 195
[3] Tian X T, Li Y M, Liu Q, Zhang K S 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 2324
[4] Yang J F, Yang B D, Gao J, Zhang T C, Wang J M 2010 Acta Sin. Quant. Opt. 16 41 (in Chinese) [杨建峰, 杨保东, 高静, 张天才, 王军民 2010 量子光学学报 16 41]
[5] Guo S L, Yang J F, Yang B D, Zhang T C, Wang J M 2010 Proc. SPIE 7846 784619
[6] Vyatkin M Y, Dronov A G, Chernikov M A, Gapontsev D V, Gapontsev V P 2005 Proc. SPIE 5709 125
[7] Guo S L, Han Y S, Wang J, Yang B D, He J, Wang J M 2012 Acta Opt. Sin. 32 031901 (in Chinese) [郭善龙, 韩亚帅, 王杰, 杨保东, 何军, 王军民 2012 光学学报 32 031901]
[8] Boyd G D, Kleinman D A 1968 J. Appl. Phys. 39 3597
[9] Fejer M M, Magel G A, Jundt D H, Byer R L 1992 IEEE J. Quant. Electron 28 2631
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[12] Chaitanya K S, Samanta G K, Ebrahim-Zadeh M 2009 Opt. Express 17 13711
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