High-power fourth- and fifth-harmonic generation of a Nd:YAG laser by means of a CsLiB6O10

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Yap, YK
Inagaki, M
Nakajima, S
Mori, Y
Sasaki, T
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[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565
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10.1364/OL.21.001348
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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High pulse energies of nanosecond-level fourth- and fifth-harmonic (4 omega and 5 omega) generation of a Nd:YAG laser have been obtained with a CsLiB6O10 (CLBO) nonlinear crystal. 500 mJ of 4 omega output with a conversion efficiency of 50% from the second-harmonic input was generated. 5 omega output at 213 nm of as high as 230 mJ was obtained by sum-frequency generation of the 266- and 1064-nm beams, corresponding to a 10.4% conversion efficiency of the initial fundamental input energy. The characteristics of the CLBO crystal that permit this effective frequency conversion are discussed. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America
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