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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2015
Gooch and Housego Plc, Ilminster, Somerset, GB;
Murray Keith Reed, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Robert C. Eckardt, Mayfield Village, OH (US);
Gooch and Housego PLC, Somerset, GB;
Abstract
A wavelength convertor includes a beam splitter which splits a pulsed laser beam at wavelength λinto a first higher power pulse portion and a second low power pulse portion. A fiber super continuum (SC) generator is coupled to receive the second pulse portion which converts the second pulse portion into a SC pulse having a bandwidth of >100 nm including a narrow spectral portion at wavelength λ. An optical parametric amplifier (OPA) having a periodically poled material is included with domains arranged to provided quasi-phase matching for amplification at λand pumping at λ. The arrival of the SC pulse portion at λand the first pulse portion at the OPA is synchronized to overlap in time. The OPA is seeded by the SC pulse portion at λand pumped by the first pulse portion to provide an amplified OPA seed at λ.