Generation of tunable 187.9-196-nm radiation in beta-Ba(2)BO(4)

Generation of deep ultraviolet narrow linewidth laser by mixing frequency Ti:sapphire laser at 5 kHz repetition rate

We demonstrate a scheme to generate deep ultraviolet source by the single-stage high-power Ti:sapphire laser with linewidth of 0.05 nm cryogenically operating at repetition rate of 5 kHz. The fundamental laser was tuned by an intracavity birefringent filter and three etalons with an output power greater than 8 W, corresponding to about 17% optical efficiency. The pulse width was 112 ns and M2<1.1. By using the nonlinear crystals BiB3O6 and KBe2BO3F2, the output power of 2.2 W at second harmonic and 8.5 mW at fourth harmonic laser of about 195 nm were produced. This compact high-repetition rate laser with narrow linewidth would be a promising tunable source for spectroscopy.

200-mW-average power ultraviolet generation at 0.193 microm in K2Al2B2O7

K2Al2B2O7 has been found to be phase matchable for type-1 sum-frequency generation (SFG) at 0.193 microm by mixing the Nd:YAG laser wavelength at 1.0642 microm and the SFG output of the RbTiOAsO4 optical parametric oscillator tuned at 0.2358 microm. An average power of 200 mW at 10 kHz was obtained in a 7-mm-long crystal. In addition, the Sellmeier equations and the thermo-optic dispersion formula, which predict well the phase-matching conditions and temperature phase-matching bandwidths (FWHM) for second-harmonic generation and SFG in the 0.193-0.669-microm range, are presented.

Generation of tunable 187.9-196-nm radiation in beta-BaB(2)O(4): errata

In Ref. 1, the first full sentence in the right-hand column of p. 1608 should read as: 'Although BBO is phase matchable down to 187 nm and shorter in this configuration without a very large (2-4 degrees ) change in theta (and hence in d(eff)), and B2 is also suitable to accommodate the phase matching, tunability below 187.9 nm becomes limited by the exponential increase in crystal absorption.'