Third harmonic generation in rare gas solids

Author

Schilling, G. ; Ernst, W.E. ; Schwentner, N.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Experimentalphys., Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany

Volume

29

Issue

10

fYear

1993

fDate

10/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2702

Lastpage

2712

Abstract

Coherent radiation is generated around 94, 112, and 118 nm by frequency tripping in Ar and Kr crystals. The center wavelength of the tuning ranges can be shifted by 0.1 to 0.2 nm with temperature. The spectral widths of the tuning ranges in Ar increase from 0.03 to 0.15 nm for a reduction of the sample thickness from 3 mm to 5.5 μm. The conversion efficiency saturates for film thicknesses around 50 μm due to reabsorption. Surface damage limits the conversion efficiency to 3·10^-7 for 15 ns long pulses, and a value of 6.5·10^-6 has been already obtained for ps pulses. Analytical and numerical solutions for the wave equations, including reabsorption, are derived and a consistent description of the properties of third harmonic generation in rare gas crystals is provided

Keywords

argon; krypton; laser tuning; optical harmonic generation; optical saturation; 112 nm; 118 nm; 15 ns; 3 nm to 5.5 micron; 94 nm; Ar; Kr; analytical solutions; center wavelength; coherent radiation; conversion efficiency; frequency tripping; numerical solutions; rare gas solids; reabsorption; sample thickness; saturation; spectral widths; surface damage; temperature; third harmonic generation; tuning ranges; wave equations; Absorption; Argon; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Gases; Laser tuning; Optical frequency conversion; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Solids;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.250393

Filename

250393