TY - JOUR
T1 - Optical, thermal, electrical, damage, and phase-matching properties of lithium selenoindate
AU - Petrov, Valentin
AU - Zondy, Jean Jacques
AU - Bidault, Olivier
AU - Isaenko, Ludmila
AU - Vedenyapin, Vitaliy
AU - Yelisseyev, Alexander
AU - Chen, Weidong
AU - Tyazhev, Aleksey
AU - Lobanov, Sergei
AU - Marchev, Georgi
AU - Kolker, Dmitri
PY - 2010/9/1
Y1 - 2010/9/1
N2 - Lithium selenoindate (LiInSe2) is a new nonlinear chalcogenide biaxial crystal, related to LiInS2 and transparent from 0.54 to 10 μm at the 50% level (10 mm thickness), which has been successfully grown in large sizes and with good optical quality. We report on what we believe to be new physical properties that are relevant for laser and nonlinear optical applications and summarize all relevant characteristics, both from the literature and as measured in the present work. With respect to AgGaS(e) 2 ternary chalcopyrite materials, LiInSe2 displays a nearly isotropic thermal expansion behavior with three- to five-times-larger thermal conductivities associated with high optical damage thresholds, and low intensity-dependent absorption, allowing direct high-power downconversion from the near-infrared, especially 1064 nm, to the deep mid-infrared. Continuous-wave difference-frequency generation (5.9-8.1 μm) of Ti:sapphire laser sources is reported for the first time as well as nanosecond optical parametric oscillation with a Nd:YAG laser as the pump source at 100 Hz and idler tuning between 4.7 and 8.7 μm.
AB - Lithium selenoindate (LiInSe2) is a new nonlinear chalcogenide biaxial crystal, related to LiInS2 and transparent from 0.54 to 10 μm at the 50% level (10 mm thickness), which has been successfully grown in large sizes and with good optical quality. We report on what we believe to be new physical properties that are relevant for laser and nonlinear optical applications and summarize all relevant characteristics, both from the literature and as measured in the present work. With respect to AgGaS(e) 2 ternary chalcopyrite materials, LiInSe2 displays a nearly isotropic thermal expansion behavior with three- to five-times-larger thermal conductivities associated with high optical damage thresholds, and low intensity-dependent absorption, allowing direct high-power downconversion from the near-infrared, especially 1064 nm, to the deep mid-infrared. Continuous-wave difference-frequency generation (5.9-8.1 μm) of Ti:sapphire laser sources is reported for the first time as well as nanosecond optical parametric oscillation with a Nd:YAG laser as the pump source at 100 Hz and idler tuning between 4.7 and 8.7 μm.
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U2 - 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001902
DO - 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001902
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956506323
VL - 27
SP - 1902
EP - 1927
JO - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
JF - Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
SN - 0740-3224
IS - 9
ER -