Intracavity difference-frequency mixing of optical parametric oscillator signal and idler pulses in BaGaSe.

An overall quantum conversion efficiency of 7.8% is achieved by intracavity mixing the signal and idler of a 1.064 μm pumped Rb:PPKTP optical parametric oscillator in BaGaSe.

Widely tunable in the mid-IR BaGaSe optical parametric oscillator pumped at 1064  nm.

A BaGaSe nanosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) shows extremely wide idler tunability in the mid-IR (2.7-17 μm) under 1.064 μm pumping.

Rb:PPKTP optical parametric oscillator with intracavity difference-frequency generation in AgGaSe.

A 1.064 μm pumped Rb:PPKTP optical parametric oscillator (OPO) generates mid-IR radiation by intracavity mixing the resonant signal and idler waves in AgGaSe. The ∼6  ns pulses at ∼7  μm have an energy of 670 μJ at 100 Hz, equivalent to an average power of 67 mW.

Intracavity-pumped, cascaded AgGaSe₂ optical parametric oscillator tunable from 5.8 to 18 µm.

A AgGaSe2 nonlinear crystal placed in a coupled cavity is intracavity pumped by the ~1.85-µm signal pulses of a 1.064-µm pumped Rb:PPKTP doubly-resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) operating at a repetition rate of 100 Hz.

Mid-infrared rotated image singly resonant twisted rectangle optical parametric oscillator based on HgGa(2)S(4) pumped at 1064 nm.

We compare linear, planar ring, and rotated image singly resonant twisted rectangle (RISTRA) type nanosecond optical parametric oscillator cavities using HgGaS nonlinear crystal pumped by 8 ns pulses at 1064 nm from a low beam quality pump source. The input-output characteristics and the output idler beam quality at 6300 nm are compared for two values of the pump beam diameter presenting different cavity Fresnel numbers and magnitudes of the spatial walk-off effect due to birefringence. The RISTRA cavity ensures in all cases a circular output beam profile but is advantageous in terms of beam quality with respect to the planar ring only at a large pump beam diameter.

Narrow bandwidth, picosecond, 1064  nm pumped optical parametric generator for the mid-IR based on HgGa₂S₄.

We report on optical parametric generation in a mercury thiogallate (HgGa2S4) crystal pumped by 16 ps, 1064 nm pulses at 250 kHz. A broad tuning range extending from 1.19 to 1.

Narrow-bandwidth, ~100 ps seeded optical parametric generation in CdSiP2 pumped by Raman-shifted pulses at 1198 nm.

Low-threshold, efficient optical parametric generation at ~4.64 μm is demonstrated using CdSiP2 nonlinear crystal pumped by 150 ps Raman shifted pump pulses at 1198 nm in noncritical configuration at 1 kHz repetition rate. Maximum single pulse idler energy of 6 μJ and total conversion efficiency of 30% are achieved.

Midinfrared optical parametric oscillator based on the wide-bandgap BaGa4S7 nonlinear crystal.

The orthorhombic biaxial crystal BaGa(4)S(7) has been employed in a 1064 nm pumped optical parametric oscillator generating <6 ns long idler pulses with energies as high as 0.5 mJ at 6.217 μm and average power of ~50 mW at 100 Hz.

Narrow-bandwidth, mid-infrared, seeded optical parametric generation in 90° phase-matched CdSiP2 crystal pumped by diffraction limited 500 ps pulses at 1064 nm.

Low-threshold, efficient optical parametric generation at ~6100 nm is demonstrated using CdSiP2 nonlinear crystal at 1 to 10 kHz repetition rates with relatively long 500 ps pump pulses at 1064 nm. Maximum single pulse energy of 8.7 μJ and average power of 79 mW are achieved for the idler.

Optical parametric generation in CdSiP2 at 6.125 μm pumped by 8 ns long pulses at 1064 nm.

A 21.4 mm long noncritically cut CdSiP2 crystal, pumped by 8 ns pulses at 1064 nm in a double-pass configuration for pump, signal, and idler, generated 523 μJ, 5.8 ns idler pulses at 6.

Subnanosecond, 1 kHz, temperature-tuned, noncritical mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator based on CdSiP(2) crystal pumped at 1064 nm.

Operation of an optical parametric oscillator based on CdSiP(2) and pumped at 1064 nm is demonstrated at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. The maximum output idler energy of 24 microJ at 6.125 microm corresponds to an average power of 24 mW.

Nd:YAG pumped nanosecond optical parametric oscillator based on LiInSe2 with tunability extending from 4.7 to 8.7 microm.

LiInSe(2) is one of the few (only 5) non-oxide nonlinear optical crystals whose band-gap (2.86 eV) 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. However, the first such demonstration was limited to the 3.