Active mode locking of continuous-wave doubly and singly resonant optical parametric oscillators.
We report on what we believe to be the first active mode locking of near-degenerate, doubly and singly resonant cw-pumped optical parametric oscillators (OPOs). We show experimentally that a steady-state regime of short pulses is reached in a few tens of microseconds under cw pumping. The oscillation buildup dynamics of both OPOs is also explored, evidencing an unusual transient behavior in the mode-locking process.
Melkonian
Jean-Michel
JM
Office National d'Etudes et de Recherche Aérospatiales, Chemin de la Hunière, Palaiseau, France.
Forget
Nicolas
N
Bretenaker
Fabien
F
Drag
Cyril
C
Lefebvre
Michel
M
Rosencher
Emmanuel
E