Efficient difference-frequency generation of 7- to 20-/spl mu/m radiation using CdGeAs/sub 2/

Author

Vodopyanov, K.L. ; Schunemann, P.G.

Author_Institution

Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

509

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report difference-frequency generation for the first time in CdGeAs/sub 2/. Efficient, room-temperature generation of continuously tunable coherent output in the range 7-20 /spl mu/m was achieved. Such a device is of interest for a variety of applications including molecular and solid state spectroscopy, remote chemical sensing, biology, and medicine. The setup used for these experiments is shown using a for a pump source a double-pass traveling-wave optical parametric generator.

Keywords

cadmium compounds; infrared sources; optical frequency conversion; optical materials; optical parametric devices; optical pumping; optical tuning; spectroscopic light sources; ternary semiconductors; 7 to 20 mum; CdGeAs/sub 2/; IR sources; biology; continuously tunable coherent output; difference-frequency generation; double-pass traveling-wave optical parametric generator; medicine; molecular spectroscopy; pump source; remote chemical sensing; room-temperature generation; solid state spectroscopy; Detectors; Electrons; Laboratories; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Pump lasers; Resonance; Tunable circuits and devices;

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.1998.676558

Filename

676558