High-power, widely tunable, picosecond coherent source from optical parametric amplification in barium borate
- 5 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 57 (19) , 1961-1963
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.103980
Abstract
We report the performance of a type‐I barium borate optical parametric amplifier pumped by 15 ps, 355 nm laser pulses. We show that it is possible to obtain narrowband (≂3 Å), high‐energy (≥200 μJ), widely tunable (0.4–2 μm) picosecond pulses with a maximum pump‐to‐signal energy conversion better than 30%.Keywords
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