3RD-HARMONIC GENERATION IN BARIUM BORATE

被引:27
作者
TOMOV, IV
VANWONTERGHEM, B
RENTZEPIS, PM
机构
[1] Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA
[2] Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia
来源
APPLIED OPTICS | 1992年 / 31卷 / 21期
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10.1364/AO.31.004172
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The cubic nonlinear susceptibility of barium metaborate was employed for the generation of phase-matched third-harmonic generation (THG) of 1.053-mu-m pump radiation. The various processes that are responsible for THG in this crystal are discussed and experimental results for types I and II phase matching are presented. THG power of 50-mu-W is recorded with an average pump power of 800 mW of 1-kHz repetition rate picosecond pulses.
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页码:4172 / 4174
页数:3
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