NONCRITICALLY PHASE-MATCHED 2ND-HARMONIC GENERATION AND OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION IN A LITHIUM TRIBORATE CRYSTAL

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HUANG, JY
SHEN, YR
CHEN, CT
WU, BC
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[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB,DIV MED,BERKELEY,CA 94720
[2] CHINESE ACAD SCI,FUJIAN INST RES STRUCT MATTER,FUZHOU,PEOPLES R CHINA
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10.1063/1.105156
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We evaluate the potential of lithium triborate (LBO) temperature-tuned to achieve type-I noncritical phase matching, for picosecond high-power second-harmonic generation (SHG) and tunable optical parametric amplification (OPA). Pumped by 35 ps, 1.064-mu-m laser pulses, a conversion efficiency of 65% was obtained from SHG. The output of OPA, pumped by 0.532-mu-m was tunable from 0.75 to 1.8-mu-m with an efficiency better than 20%.
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