We report a self-phase-locked and degenerate backward wave optical parametric oscillator (BWOPO) generating a counterpropagating signal and an idler in the spectral band of optical communication. The device is based on a periodically poled Rb-doped KTiOPO4 crystal with a poling period of 433 nm. To the best of our knowledge. this is the shortest quasi-phase matching period reported in... https://www.roneverhart.com/HP-Pavilion-15-eg2373cl-15-6-FHD-Touch-Laptop-Intel-Core-i7-1255U-3-50-GHz-GeForce-MX550-16GB-DDR4-512GB-SSD-Windows--p8309/