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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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High-power Cr 2+ :ZnS saturable absorber passively Q-switched Ho:YAG ceramic laser and its application to pumping of a mid-IR OPO
TL;DR: The Cr2+:ZnS was used as a saturable absorber to obtain a passively Q-switched Ho:YAG ceramic laser operating near 2.1 μm, and to the authors' knowledge, this is the best report for the PQS Ho: YAG ceramic Laser.
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Parametric generation of tunable picosecond pulses in proustite between 1.2 and 8 μm
TL;DR: In this paper, a single-path system consisting of Nd:YAG laser pulses and two proustite crystals was used to generate infrared pulses over a wide tuning range.
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Nd:YAG pumped nanosecond optical parametric oscillator based on LiInSe2 with tunability extending from 4.7 to 8.7 microm.
Georgi Marchev,Aleksey Tyazhev,Vitaliy Vedenyapin,Dmitri Kolker,Alexander P. Yelisseyev,Sergei Lobanov,Ludmila I. Isaenko,Jean Jacques Zondy,Valentin Petrov +8 more
TL;DR: LiInSe2 is one of the few non-oxide nonlinear optical crystals whose band-gap and transparency allowed in the past nanosecond optical parametric oscillation in the mid-IR without two-photon absorption for a pump wavelength of 1064 nm.
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Widely tunable continuous-wave mid-infrared radiation (5.5-11 microm) by difference-frequency generation in LiInS2 crystal.
Weidong Chen,Emmanuelle Poullet,Jean Burie,Daniel Boucher,Markus W. Sigrist,Jean Jacques Zondy,Ludmila I. Isaenko,Alexander P. Yelisseyev,Sergei Lobanov +8 more
TL;DR: The phase-matching conditions in cw DFG have been investigated, which allowed us to improve the Sellmeier parameters by use of a two-pole dispersion equation.
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2.8 μm laser pumped type I and type II travelling-wave optical parametric generator in GaSe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a mode-locked Er:Cr:YSGG laser (λ=2.8 μm) to pump travelling wave optical parametric generator (OPG) based on GaSe crystal.