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Published January 1, 2000 | Version public
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A multicrystal harmonic generator that compensates for thermally induced phase mismatch

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Abstract

A multicrystal means of compensating for the thermally induced phase mismatch encountered in the generation of high average power UV radiation is described. The concept is experimentally tested with a Nd:YAG laser 4th harmonic generator based on two β-BaB_2O_4 (BBO) crystals. Single versus two crystal results demonstrate that this design compensates for the thermally induced phase mismatch, effectively increasing the interaction length of nonlinear optical crystals during harmonic generation under high loading.

Additional Information

© 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. Received 24 March 1999; received in revised form 1 September 1999; accepted 17 September 1999. Funding from the NSF MRI program grant ATM-9724500, sponsored by Atmospheric Chemistry, which provided the pump laser used in these experiments, is gratefully acknowledged.

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Eprint ID
34085
DOI
10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00580-5
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NSF
ATM-9724500

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2012-09-14
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