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Demonstration of an ultraviolet stimulated Brillouin scattering pulse compressed hundred picosecond laser in LiB3O5 crystals

Zhenxu Bai, Yulei Wang, Zhiwei Lu*, Li Jiang, Hang Yuan, Zhaohong Liu

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Abstract

A hundred picosecond ultraviolet (UV) laser is demonstrated with a pulse duration of less than 200 ps and peak power of 0.6 GW. With a hundred picosecond stimulated Brillouin scattering compressed pulse as the fundamental light, the UV output at 355 nm is obtained by extra-cavity sum-frequency-mixing in two LiB3O5 crystals. Maximum UV energy was 100 mJ when the incident energy was 280 mJ, yielding an optical-to-optical efficiency of 35.7%. This result is of interest for the generation of high energy sub-nanosecond UV lasers which finds applications in shock ignition and industrial processing.

Original languageEnglish
Article number085502
Pages (from-to)1-6
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Optics (United Kingdom)
Volume19
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2017

Keywords

  • hundred picosecond laser
  • LiB₃O₅
  • stimulated Brillouin scattering
  • sum-frequency mixing
  • ultraviolet

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