Tunability has added an important dimension to a variety of laser devices and led to new
systems and applications. From laser spectroscopy to Bose-Einstein condensation, the one …

A high-performance airborne water vapor differential absorption lidar has been developed
during the past years. This system uses a four-wavelength/three-absorption line …

In this introduction we list important definitions and relations that will be used throughout the
book. We will use SI units exclusively. In a departure from custom, for degenerate mixing …

Oscillators are one of the key elements in various applications as a signal source to
generate periodic oscillations. Among them, an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is a …

We show that plane-wave singly resonant optical parametric oscillators exhibit a temporal
modulation instability when pumped a certain number of times above threshold. Previously …

We present an efficient tunable optical parametric generator (OPG) with its linewidth close to
the Fourier transform limit by injection seeding a tunable diode laser. Benefitting from high …

A narrow-band tunable injection-seeded pulsed titanium: sapphire laser system has been
developed for application in high-resolution spectroscopic studies at the fundamental …

In this article we present a widely tunable laser architecture for high-resolution nonlinear
spectroscopy which incorporates a continuous wave optical parametric oscillator (OPO) for …

We study singly-resonant optical parametric oscillators with chirped quasi-phasematching
gratings as the gain medium, for which adiabatic optical parametric amplification has the …

For spectroscopic and remote sensing applications injection seeded optical parametric
oscillators (OPOs) are well established. In this paper we study the dependencies of signal …