Quintero-Torres, R.; Domínguez-Juárez, J.L. Green-Yellow-Orange-Red Spectral Range with Sum-Frequency Generation Using BIBO Crystal Pumped with an Optical Parametric Amplifier. Photonics2020, 7, 91.
Quintero-Torres, R.; Domínguez-Juárez, J.L. Green-Yellow-Orange-Red Spectral Range with Sum-Frequency Generation Using BIBO Crystal Pumped with an Optical Parametric Amplifier. Photonics 2020, 7, 91.
Quintero-Torres, R.; Domínguez-Juárez, J.L. Green-Yellow-Orange-Red Spectral Range with Sum-Frequency Generation Using BIBO Crystal Pumped with an Optical Parametric Amplifier. Photonics2020, 7, 91.
Quintero-Torres, R.; Domínguez-Juárez, J.L. Green-Yellow-Orange-Red Spectral Range with Sum-Frequency Generation Using BIBO Crystal Pumped with an Optical Parametric Amplifier. Photonics 2020, 7, 91.
Abstract
We show broadband sum-frequency generation (SFG) in the Green-Yellow-Orange-Red spectral range using bismuth triborate, BiB3O6 crystal (BIBO) as nonlinear material. We perform a noncollinear phase-matching configuration within BIBO crystal using the remaining light behind the second harmonic generation stage and the infrared idler of an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). The obtained mixing radiation of ultrafast light sources to generate femtosecond pulses across 520.5 to 742.5 nm region is observed. SFG spectrum from single-pass cross-correlation intensity over such visible range is showed. The SFG wavelengths as a function of tunable wavelength idler OPA agrees with the expectations of parametric conversion condition and open the door to practical multi-beam or multi-color sum-frequency generators.
Keywords
Sum frequency generation; femtosecond pulses; noncollinear phase matching.
Subject
Physical Sciences, Optics and Photonics
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