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Frequency down-conversion of solid-state laser sources to the mid-infrared spectral range using non-oxide nonlinear crystals
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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.About:
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.read more
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Analysis and prediction of mid-IR nonlinear optical metal sulfides with diamond-like structures
TL;DR: In this article, a 3D framework connected by various sulfide tetrahedral units, such as PS4, SiS4, GeS4 and AgS4 is characterized for nonlinear optical applications in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral region.
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Mid-Infrared Nonlinear Optical Materials Based on Metal Chalcogenides: Structure–Property Relationship
TL;DR: In this paper, the discovery of superior mid-IR NLO metal chalcogenides is still a big challenge mainly due to the difficulty of achieving a good balance between the NLO effect and laser damage threshold (LDT).
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A review on structure-performance relationship toward the optimal design of infrared nonlinear optical materials with balanced performances
Kui Wu,Shilie Pan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the structure-performance relationship for 49 compounds and the result shows that alkali or/and alkaline earth metals must be the preferred cations to maintain the wide optical bandgap.
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First-Principles Design and Simulations Promote the Development of Nonlinear Optical Crystals.
TL;DR: The computer-assisted exploration for new functional NLO materials is useful for understanding structure-property relationships and can provide researchers with a new approach to cost-effective and data-driven materials design.
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Recent advances and future perspectives on infrared nonlinear optical metal halides
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the structural features and NLO performances in the reported metal halide NLO materials is investigated, and the determination rules of these microscopic structures on NLO properties in metal halides are summarized and analyzed on the basis of the combination of available experimental data and first-principles results.
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Tunable, high-energy, mid-infrared, picosecond optical parametric generator based on CdSiP_2
S. Chaitanya Kumar,Michal Jelínek,Matthias Baudisch,Kevin T. Zawilski,Peter G. Schunemann,Václav Kubeček,Jens Biegert,Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh +7 more
TL;DR: A tunable, high-energy, single-pass optical parametric generator (OPG) based on the nonlinear material, cadmium silicon phosphide, CdSiP is reported, which has generated signal pulse energy as high as 636 µJ at 1283 nm, together with idler pulse energy of 33 µJ for 2.1 mJ of input pump pulse energy.
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Generation of 200 femtosecond pulses tunable between 2.5 and 5.5 µm
A. Lohner,P. Kruck,W. W. Rühle +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the signal and idler output of an optical parametric oscillator are mixed in LiIO3 and AgGaS2 crystals to generate infrared pulses with a repetition rate of 82 MHz and an average power of 500µW.
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Nonlinear optical properties of orthorhombic barium formate and magnesium barium fluoride
P. S. Bechthold,S. Haussühl +1 more
TL;DR: The nonlinear optical susceptibility tensors of barium formate and magnesium barium fluoride were determined by the method of Maker fringes on the basis of a more rigorous theoretical treatment of second-harmonic generation of electromagnetic waves in plane-parallel plates of optically biaxial crystals as mentioned in this paper.
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Effective second-order nonlinearity in acentric optical crystals with low symmetry.
Pancho Tzankov,Valentin Petrov +1 more
TL;DR: The derivations are expected to help establish adherence to uniform nomenclature and conventions for these novel inorganic nonlinear crystals, and to eliminate ambiguity and increasing confusion in the literature and in the industrial specifications.
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LiInS2: A new nonlinear crystal for the mid-IR
Ludmila I. Isaenko,Alexander P. Yelisseyev,Sergei Lobanov,Valentin Petrov,Fabian Rotermund,Jean Jacques Zondy,Guido M. Knippels +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, LiInS 2, a new nonlinear crystal, exhibiting no two-photon absorption near 800 nm, was proposed, with photoinduced absorption in the visible to near-IR occurring at λ λ >500 nm or minimized by annealing in In 2 S 3 vapor.