sum-frequency generation of high-energy and high-beam-quality ultraviolet pulses和频代高能和high-beam-quality紫外脉冲.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Optics Volume 2011, Article ID 737684, 4 pages doi:10.1155/2011/737684 Research Article Sum-Frequency Generation of High-Energy and High-Beam-Quality Ultraviolet Pulses Oystein Farsund and Gunnar Rustad Land and Air Systems Division, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), P.O. Box 25, 2027 Kjeller, Norway Correspondence should be addressed to Oystein Farsund, oystein.farsund@ffi.no Received 1 July 2011; Accepted 24 August 2011 Academic Editor: Alexandre Kudlinski Copyright © 2011 O. Farsund and G. Rustad. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Sum-frequency generation of UV pulses exceeding 25 mJ and with beam quality M2 ∼ 5 has been demonstrated by mixing the third harmonic pulses of a flash lamp pumped 1.06 μm Nd:YAG laser with 1.7 μm pulses from an optical parametric oscillator pumped by the same laser in a compact setup. 1. Introduction wavelength in a sum-frequency generation (SFG) process. The output UV wavelength can be varied by tuning the OPO High-energy ultraviolet (UV) pulses with high beam quality wavelength (and with subsequent tuning of the SFG crystal), have important lidar applications, such as in standoff detec- but this has not been demonstrated in this work. tion of biological aerosols and in ozone detection (see, e.g., Efficient conversion in the SFG stage requires the inter- [1]). While the third (355 nm) and fourth (266 nm) harmon- acting beams to overlap well both te