Title :
Narrow-bandwidth, mid-infrared, seeded optical parametric generation in 90° phase-matched CdSiP2 crystal pumped by diffraction limited 500-ps pulses at 1064 nm
Author :
Marchev, Georgi ; Pirzio, Federico ; Piccoli, Riccardo ; Agnesi, Antonio ; Reali, Giancarlo ; Schunemann, Peter G. ; Zawilski, Kevin T. ; Tyazhev, Aleksey ; Petrov, Valentin
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Low-threshold, efficient optical parametric generation at 6100 nm is demonstrated with CdSiP2 at 1 to 10 kHz repetition rates with seeding at the signal wavelength employed for narrowing of the idler spectral bandwidth.
Keywords :
Crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
