Ra. Haas et Ps. Banks, GENERATION OF HIGH-INTENSITY BROAD-BANDWIDTH LIGHT FOR INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION, Optics communications, 107(3-4), 1994, pp. 265-270
It is suggested that three-wave parametric fluorescence in optically a
nisotropic crystals, e.g. KDP, may be used to generate high intensity
(greater-than-or-equal-to 1 GW/cm3), broad-bandwidth (DELTAlambda/lamb
da less-than-or-equal-to 5-10%) light with small divergence (less-than
-or-equal-to 100 murad) in the near infrared to midvisible spectral re
gions. Larger fractional bandwidths and shorter wavelengths may be ach
ieved by modification of crystal optical properties and harmonic conve
rsion or sum frequency generation, respectively.