Abstract
The most promising nonlinear optical (NLO) materials currently available for a 2 μm pumped optical parametric oscillator (OPO) are silver gallium selenide, AgGaSe2 (AGSE) and zinc germanium phosphide, ZnGeP2 (ZGP). Many potential applications of this OPO require several watts of tunable output at pulse repetition frequencies exceeding 10 kHz. It is therefore necessary to pay careful attention to the thermal properties of the NLO materials.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
H. Komine, J. M. Fukumoto, W. H. Long, and E. A. Stappaerts
CPD14 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1994
David E. Zelmon, Elizabeth A. Hanning, Jayne F. Martin, and Peter Schunemann
TuB31 Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications (NLO) 2000
G. T. Bennett, P. M. Noblett, and R. M. Morrison
FO5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1994