It uses a mid-infrared optical
parametric oscillator (OPO) with an integrated DPSS pump laser as an illumination source.
In February, Toptica's optical
parametric oscillator (OPO) laser system won a Prism Award at Photonics West in San Francisco.
Sun, "Multi-wavelength fiber optical
parametric oscillator based on a highly nonlinear fiber and a Sagnac loop filter", Progress in Electromagnetics Research, vol.
The singly resonant optical
parametric oscillator (SR-OPO), whose only one wave is in resonance within the optical cavity, is more stable and of higher maximum output power than the doubly resonant OPO (DR-OPO).
Fan, "Efficient all-solid-state mid-infrared optical
parametric oscillator based on resonantly pumped 1.645 [micro]m Er:YAG laser," Optics Letters, vol.
In response to these dilemmas the MIR laser was designed with an ultra-stable, single longitudinal mode resonator coupled to a SOPO (Stable Optical
Parametric Oscillator).
Among them, degenerate femtosecond optical
parametric oscillator (OPO) can clearly transpose near-IR frequency combs to the mid-IR, for example, transfer the properties of a frequency comb based on commercial Yb laser to the 2 [micro]m wavelength range.