High efficiency mid-infrared OPO based on low-loss orientation-patterned GaAs samples (OP-GaAs)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6875, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Faye, David ^a   Lallier, Eric ^a   Grisard, Arnaud ^a   Gérard, Bruno ^a   Kieleck, Christelle ^b   Hirth, Antoine ^b  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b FRENCH GERMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS   (France)

Author keywords

Gallium arsenide (GaAs); Nonlinear optical materials; Oscillator parametric optic (OPO); Quasi phasematching technique (QPM)

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ALLOYS; LASERS; MICROFLUIDICS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL LOSSES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PIGMENTS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

(1 1 1) ORIENTATION; (140.3500) LASERS; COHERENT SOURCE (CS); FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INFRARED MATERIALS; LOW LOSSES; MID-INFRARED (MIR); NON LINEAR OPTICAL (NLO) MATERIALS; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTRONICS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPECTRAL RANGES;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 44849124087     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.762894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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