Widely tunable and high resolution mid-infrared laser based on BaGa4Se7 optical parametric oscillator

Frontiers of Optoelectronics - Tập 16 - Trang 1-7 - 2023
Qing Ye1,2, Hui Kong1,2, Jintian Bian1,2, Jiyong Yao3, Enlong Wang1,2, Yunlong Wu1,2, Haiping Xu1,2, Kaihua Wen1,2, Yihua Hu1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Hefei, China
2Advanced Laser Technology Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, China
3Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

The widely tunable and high resolution mid-infrared laser based on a BaGa4Se7 (BGSe) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) was demonstrated. A wavelength tuning range of 2.76–4.64 μm and a wavelength tuning resolution of about 0.3 nm were obtained by a BGSe (56.3°, 0°) OPO, which was pumped by a 1064 nm laser. It is the narrowest reported wavelength tuning resolution for BGSe OPO, and was obtained by simultaneously controlling the angle and temperature of BGSe.

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