Continuously tunable, injection-seeded β-barium borate optical parametric oscillator: Spectroscopic applications
- 22 April 1991
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 58 (16) , 1718-1720
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.105119
Abstract
Simple spectroscopic control of a β‐barium borate optical parametric oscillator is achieved by seeding at its visible signal wavelength with light from a tunable pulsed dye laser. This yields continuously tunable narrowband infrared output at the corresponding idler wavelength. The spectroscopic potential of this device is demonstrated by recording photoacoustic spectra of the near‐infrared (ν1+2ν3+ν51) band of acetylene gas.Keywords
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