Solid-state Raman laser generating discretely tunable ultraviolet between 266 and 320 nm.
We report a KGd(WO(4))(2) Raman laser pumped by a 532 nm laser that uses the intracavity nonlinear second harmonic and sum-frequency mixing of the Stokes and fundamental fields in beta-barium borate to generate selectable output among eight output wavelengths over the range 266-320 nm. Output pulse energies of up to 0.22 mJ at 10 Hz pulse repetition rate and average output powers up to 48 mW at 5 kHz were achieved.
Mildren
Richard P
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Centre for Lasers and Applications, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. rmildren@ics.mq.edu.au
Ogilvy
Hamish
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Piper
James A
JA