Mid-IR tunable downconversion in Ag/sub 2/AsS/sub 3/

Author

Crouthamel, D.I. ; Lee, Wei-Jen ; Mirov, Sergey B. ; Okorogu, A. ; Heller, D.P. ; Walling, J.C. ; Yan, W.-B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Alabama Univ., Birmingham, AL, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

142

Lastpage

143

Abstract

Summary form only given. We describe an efficient room temperature all-solid-state laser system continuously tunable in the 1.9-10 /spl mu/m spectral range, based on the difference-frequency mixing (in proustite crystal) of the alexandrite laser radiation at 0.73-0.75 /spl mu/m and the output of a alexandrite laser-pumped LiF:F/sub 2//sup +/ color-center laser.

Keywords

colour centre lasers; infrared sources; laser beams; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; silver compounds; solid lasers; 0.73 to 0.75 mum; 1.9 to 10 mum; Ag/sub 2/AsS/sub 3/; BeAl/sub 2/O/sub 4/:Cr; LiF:F; alexandrite laser radiation; alexandrite laser-pumped LiF:F/sub 2//sup +/ color-center laser; continuously tunable; difference-frequency mixing; mid-IR tunable downconversion; proustite crystal; room temperature all-solid-state laser system; Bandwidth; Chirp; Frequency conversion; Laser radar; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Pulse generation; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.675973

Filename

675973