Title :
Mid-infrared optical parametric oscillation in the wide-bandgap BaGa4S7 nonlinear crystal
Author :
Tyazhev, Aleksey ; Kolker, Dmitri ; Marchev, Georgi ; Badikov, Valeriy ; Badikov, Dmitrii ; Shevyrdyaeva, Galina ; Panyutin, Vladimir ; Petrov, Valentin
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
The orthorhombic biaxial crystal BaGa4S7 has been employed in a 1064-nm pumped optical parametric oscillator generating pulse energies as high as 0.5 mJ in the 6-μm range with average power ∼50 mW at 100 Hz.
Keywords :
Crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
