Widely tunable second harmonic amplification by noncollinear phase matching in bulk birefringent materials

Devin J. Dean; Noah Flemens; Dylan Heberle; Jeffrey Moses

doi:10.1117/12.2584661

20 April 2021 Widely tunable second harmonic amplification by noncollinear phase matching in bulk birefringent materials

Devin J. Dean, Noah Flemens, Dylan Heberle, Jeffrey Moses

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Proceedings Volume 11670, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials and Devices XX; 116700G (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2584661
Event: SPIE LASE, 2021, Online Only

Abstract

Second harmonic amplification - a hybridization of optical parametric amplification and second harmonic generation - is a route to ultra-efficient parametric amplification. Requiring the simultaneous phase matching of two parametric wave-mixing processes, it has limited frequency coverage in the collinear geometry in bulk media. Here we show that noncollinear birefringent phase matching can provide wide frequency tunability of second harmonic amplification across the near- and mid-infrared in the materials ZnGeP₂, CdSiP₂, LiNbO₃, β - BaB₂O₄, and KD₂PO₄ in applications designed for accommodating high-energy picosecond pulses generated by solid state lasers. We discuss practical limitations including acceptance angle, phase-matching bandwidth, spatial walk off, and parasitic processes.

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Devin J. Dean, Noah Flemens, Dylan Heberle, and Jeffrey Moses "Widely tunable second harmonic amplification by noncollinear phase matching in bulk birefringent materials", Proc. SPIE 11670, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials and Devices XX, 116700G (20 April 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2584661

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