Title :
Ultraviolet optical parametric generation in CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/
Author :
Yufei Kong ; Jin-yuan Zhang ; Zuyan Xu ; Dezhong Shen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/ (CLBO) is a relatively new nonlinear optical crystal reported by Mori et al. The optical properties of CLBO are intermediate between BBO and LBO. However the greatest merit of CLBO is that it can be more readily grown than BBO and be grown from congruent or near congruent melts at exceptionally fast growth rates. The advantages of CLBO over LBO for VUV light generation are the larger birefringence, small walk-off and high optical damage threshold. We report the generation of picosecond radiation, widely tunable from the violet to near infrared in CLBO by collinear type-I phase matched optical parametric generation (OPG) process pumped by the 4th harmonic of a 30-ps Nd:YAG laser.
Keywords :
birefringence; caesium compounds; laser beams; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical parametric devices; optical phase matching; 30 ps; 4th harmonic; CsLiB/sub 6/O/sub 10/; Nd:YAG laser; UV applications; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; birefringence; collinear type-I phase matched optical parametric generation; congruent melts; crystal growth from melt; double-pass configuration; fast growth rates; high optical damage threshold; nonlinear optical crystal; picosecond radiation; small walk-off; traveling-wave optical parametric generation; ultraviolet optical parametric generation; widely tunable; Electron optics; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-662-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2001.947962
