High-power, widely tunable, picosecond coherent source from optical parametric amplification in barium borate

Journal Article · Sun Nov 04 23:00:00 EST 1990 · Applied Physics Letters; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.103980· OSTI ID:6253683

Huang, J Y; Zhang, J Y; Shen, Y R ^[1]; Chen, C; Wu, B ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA (USA) Center for Advanced Materials, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (USA)
2. Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian (People's Republic of China)

We report the performance of a type-I barium borate optical parametric amplifier pumped by 15 ps, 355 nm laser pulses. We show that it is possible to obtain narrowband ({approx equal}3 A), high-energy ({ge}200 {mu}J), widely tunable (0.4--2 {mu}m) picosecond pulses with a maximum pump-to-signal energy conversion better than 30%.

• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 6253683
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters; (USA), Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters; (USA) Vol. 57:19; ISSN APPLA; ISSN 0003-6951
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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