Abstract
Optical parametric oscillators (OPO) have established themselves as efficient, reliable, solid-state sources of tunable radiation that can operate in many regions of the spectrum where no viable laser sources exist. One such region, 3-5 µm, is particularly interesting for many spectroscopic and remote sensing applications. Using other established nonlinear optical materials such as BBO, KIP, LBO, lithium niobate, AgGaS2, AgGaSe2, and ZnGeP2 to obtain light in this spectral region has proved impractical because of their lack of transmission and/or their low optical damage thresholds.
© 1993 Optical Society of America
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