title: Temperature effects in AgGaS2 nonlinear devices.
abstract: Refractive indices of AgGaS2 crystal are measured at different temperatures using the classical minimum deviation technique and are fitted in appropriate dispersion relations. The variation of pump laser wavelength for noncritical upconversion of signal at 10.6 microm with the change in crystal temperature has been verified using the above data. Temperature tunable infrared generation by noncritically phase-matched difference- frequency mixing has been predicted from 3 to 18 microm.
authors.affiliation: Burdwan University, Physics Department, Burdwan, 713 104, India.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Bhar
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schmitt