DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF AN INFRARED SPECTROMETER BASED ON DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY-GENERATION IN AGGASE2

Authors
SIMON U BENKO Z SIGRIST MW CURL RF TITTEL FK
Citation
U. Simon et al., DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF AN INFRARED SPECTROMETER BASED ON DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY-GENERATION IN AGGASE2, Applied optics, 32(33), 1993, pp. 6650-6655
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
32
Issue
33
Year of publication
1993
Pages
6650 - 6655
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1993)32:33<6650:DCOAIS>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The availability of new nonlinear optical materials such as AgGaS2 and AgGaSe2 and improvements in compact, tunable, pulsed and continuous-w ave (cw) solid-state pump lasers now make it possible to generate tuna ble, infrared narrow-band coherent radiation over a wide wavelength ra nge (4-18 mu m) by means of difference-frequency generation (DFG). Thi s article describes the wavelength and output-power characteristics of a tunable infrared source based on AgGaSe2 and certain proven cw near -infrared pump sources for application to high-resolution spectroscopy .