Direct and cascaded third harmonic generation in CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/ crystals

Author

Min-su Kim ; Gihan Ryu ; Choon Sup Yoon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

179

Abstract

We investigated the single step third harmonic generation in CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/ (CLBO) crystals for the first time. Since CLBO crystals, like BBO, possess excellent properties for UV generation, they are good candidates for the single step third harmonic generation. We used a pulsed Nd:YAG laser as a light source, which operates with the pulse width of 9 ns and the repetition rate of 10 Hz. Excellent quality crystals of CLBO have been grown from supercooled melts at constant temperature in the authors´ laboratory. The crystal was cut and polished so that the effective /spl chi//sup 3/ may have the maximum value for type I phase-matching configuration.

Keywords

caesium compounds; crystal growth from melt; lithium compounds; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical phase matching; 9 ns; CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/; CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/ crystals; UV generation; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; constant temperature; direct cascaded third harmonic generation; excellent quality crystals; pulsed Nd:YAG laser; single step third harmonic generation; supercooled melts; type I phase-matching configuration; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Laser beam cutting; Light sources; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Phase measurement; Space vector pulse width modulation; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.811362

Filename

811362