• DocumentCode
    1056545
  • Title

    Second-harmonic generation in CDA and CD*A

  • Author

    Kato, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Japan Defence Agency, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1974
  • fDate
    8/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    616
  • Lastpage
    618
  • Abstract
    Efficient second-harmonic generation at 5321 Å has been achieved in CDA and CD*A. At 50-MW pump power, loss-free peak power-conversion efficiency of 57 percent and 45 percent were obtained in CDA and CD*A, respectively, The nonlinear optical constant, corrected for multimode fluctuations, was found to be d_{36}(CDA) = d_{36}(CD*A) = (0.96 \\pm 0.11) \\times 10^{-9} ESU, which corresponds to d_{36}(CDA) = d_{36}(CD*A) = 0.92 \\times d_{36}(KDP) . In addition, the temperature variation of the birefringence d(n_{2}^{e} - n_{1}^{o})/dT has been measured to be (8.0 \\pm 0.2) \\times 10^{-6}\\deg C-1for CDA and (7.8 \\pm 0.2) \\times 10^{-6}\\deg C-1for CD*A.
  • Keywords
    Chemical lasers; Crystals; Loss measurement; Neodymium; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Power measurement; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1974.1068204
  • Filename
    1068204