Abstract

We examined a 1514 nm eye-safe passively Q-switched self-optical parametric oscillator. The nonlinear crystal is an a-cut Nd:MgO:PPLN crystal, and the size of the crystal was 6 mm × 2 mm × 30 mm with 0.4 at.% Nd³⁺ doped and a grating period of 29.8 μm. When the crystal absorbed 12.8 W, the output maximum single-pulse energy reached 39 μJ, and a pulse width of 6.1 ns at a repetition rate of 5.4 kHz was obtained. The peak power was 6 kW, giving a slope efficiency of 42%.

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