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Frequency down-conversion of solid-state laser sources to the mid-infrared spectral range using non-oxide nonlinear crystals

Valentin Petrov
- 01 Jul 2015 - 
- Vol. 42, pp 1-106
TLDR
In this article, the development of parametric devices down-converting the laser frequency to the mid-infrared (3-30 µm) based on non-oxide nonlinear optical crystals is reviewed.
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This article is published in Progress in Quantum Electronics.The article was published on 2015-07-01. It has received 335 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Optical parametric amplifier & Cross-polarized wave generation.

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50-μJ level, 20-picosecond difference-frequency generation at 4.6-9.2 μm in LiGaS2 and LiGaSe2 at Nd:YAG laser pumping and various crystalline Raman laser seeding

TL;DR: In this article, high damage threshold LiGaS2 and LiGaSe2 crystals under picosecond Nd:YAG laser pumping and various crystalline (CaCO3, BaWO4, diamond) Raman laser seeding is demonstrated.
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Mid-infrared whispering gallery resonators based on non-oxide nonlinear optical crystals

TL;DR: In this paper, high-quality whispering gallery resonators (WGRs) made of AgGaSe2 and CdSiP2 bulk crystals are fabricated and the intrinsic Q-factors of these resonators are approaching values of 106 to 107.
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Frequency down-conversion of 1 μm laser radiation to the mid-IR using non-oxide nonlinear crystals in a cascaded intracavity configuration

TL;DR: In this paper, a singly-resonant OPO (SRO) based on AgGaSe 2 (AGSe) intracavity pumped at 1.85 μm by the signal pulses of a Rb:PPKTP doubly-reonant OD (DRO) provided extremely broad tuning (5.8 to ~18 μm) for the nonresonated idler.
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Incoherent beam combination of mid-wave infrared quantum cascade lasers

TL;DR: In this article, the incoherent beam combining of four independent quantum cascade laser (QCL) emitters with a 0.1 W continuous wave power at room temperature each is studied.
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High-Power, Narrow-Band PPLN Non-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator

TL;DR: In this article, power scaling of a PPLN non-resonant optical parametric oscillator reaching an average output power of 8.63 W at 35 kHz with spectral bandwidths not exceeding 2 nm for both signal and idler.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the induced nonlinear electric dipole and higher moments in an atomic system, irradiated simultaneously by two or three light waves, are calculated by quantum-mechanical perturbation theory.
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