Fourth-harmonic generation of a continuous-wave CO(2) laser by use of an AgGaSe(2)/ZnGeP(2) doubly resonant device

K Stoll; J J Zondy; O Acef

doi:10.1364/ol.22.001302

Fourth-harmonic generation of a continuous-wave CO(2) laser by use of an AgGaSe(2)/ZnGeP(2) doubly resonant device

Opt Lett. 1997 Sep 1;22(17):1302-4. doi: 10.1364/ol.22.001302.

Authors

K Stoll, J J Zondy, O Acef

PMID: 18188220
DOI: 10.1364/ol.22.001302

Abstract

We report a doubly resonant continuous-wave CO(2) laser frequency-quadrupling device that generates 200nW of 2.55-mum (4?) and as much as 2mW of 5.1-mum (2?) radiation out of 1.7-W fundamental radiation at 10.2 mum (?). The quadrupling process results from two resonant cascading second-harmonic generations by use of a walk-off-compensated twin AgGaSe(2) device (??2?) and a ZnGeP(2)nonlinear crystal (2??4?).