Picosecond mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier based on the wide-bandgap GaS(0.4)Se(0.6) pumped by a Nd:YAG laser system at 1064 nm

Kentaro Miyata; Georgi Marchev; Aleksey Tyazhev; Vladimir Panyutin; Valentin Petrov

doi:10.1364/OL.36.001785

Picosecond mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier based on the wide-bandgap GaS(0.4)Se(0.6) pumped by a Nd:YAG laser system at 1064 nm

Opt Lett. 2011 May 15;36(10):1785-7. doi: 10.1364/OL.36.001785.

Authors

Kentaro Miyata¹, Georgi Marchev, Aleksey Tyazhev, Vladimir Panyutin, Valentin Petrov

Affiliation

¹ Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 2A Max-Born-Strasse, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 21593890
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001785

Abstract

Operation of a GaS(0.4)Se(0.6) optical parametric amplifier is demonstrated with a 5-11 μm idler tuning range, maximum energies of ∼10 μJ for sub-30-ps pulse durations, and performance ∼3 times better than with pure GaSe.