title: Compact efficient eye-safe intracavity optical parametric oscillator with a shared cavity configuration.
abstract: We present a compact efficient eye-safe intracavity optical parametric oscillator pumped by a passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser in a shared cavity configuration. A signal pulse of 3.3 mJ energy at a 1573 nm wavelength with a peak power of 150 kW was achieved. The effective conversion efficiency with respective to the optimized 1064 nm Q-switched pulse energy was as high as 51%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. yfchen@cc.nctu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Y T
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Yen