INFRARED PULSES OF 1-PICOSECOND DURATION TUNABLE BETWEEN 4-MU-M AND 18-MU-M

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DAHINTEN, T [1 ]
PLODEREDER, U [1 ]
SEILMEIER, A [1 ]
VODOPYANOV, KL [1 ]
ALLAKHVERDIEV, KR [1 ]
IBRAGIMOV, ZA [1 ]
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[1] AZERB ACAD SCI,INST PHYS,BAKU,AZERBAIJAN
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10.1109/3.237500
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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Infrared pulses are generated via difference frequency mixing of Nd: glass laser pulses and infrared dye laser pulses. Tuning between 4 and 18 mum is achieved by various combinations of laser dyes (dye No. 5 and A 9860) and nonlinear crystals (AgGaS2 and GaSe). The energy of the mid-infrared pulses is in the order of a muJ; the photon conversion efficiency is less then or similar to 2%. The duration of the nearly bandwidth limited pulses is measured to be 1 ps. The system operates with a repetition rate of 1 Hz.
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