Spectroscopic and nonlinear-optical applications of a tunable β-barium borate optical parametric oscillator

J. G. Haub; M. J. Johnson; B. J. Orr

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.10.001765

Spectroscopic and nonlinear-optical applications of a tunable β-barium borate optical parametric oscillator

J. G. Haub, M. J. Johnson, B. J. Orr

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A pulsed β-barium borate optical parametric oscillator (BBO OPO) serves as the tunable source of coherent radiation for linear- and nonlinear-optical spectroscopic applications: photoacoustic absorption, optical double resonance, and coherent Raman spectroscopy. The BBO OPO is used spectroscopically either as a free-running broadband device with single-shot multiplex detection or as a continuously tunable narrow-band device controlled by injection seeding. A single BBO crystal offers a wide fundamental OPO tuning range (0.41-2.7 μm) that can be extended further into the ultraviolet and infrared regions by additional nonlinear-optical stages. Pumped at 355 nm by a single-mode Nd:YAG laser, the BBO OPO operates with high conversion efficiency and damage threshold and adequate beam quality for spectroscopic and nonlinear-optical purposes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1765-1777
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume	10
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.10.001765
Publication status	Published - 1993

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