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This paper reports on an experimental investigation of the spatial beam quality of a pulsed nanosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The OPO is a 355 nm pumped type-I BBO-OPO. The spatial quality of the OPO output is characterized by the M2-parameter in dependence of other experimental parameters such as resonator length, pump-beam diameter, pump-pulse duration and pump energy. The results obtained indicate, that an appropriate choice of these parameters substantially improves the spatial beam quality of the OPO output.
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Received: 19 November 2002 / Revised version: 3 February 2003 / Published online: 5 May 2003
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Anstett, G., Borsutzky, A. & Wallenstein, R. Investigation of the spatial beam quality of pulsed ns-OPOs . Appl Phys B 76, 541–545 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1134-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-003-1134-6