Abstract
This is the experimental realization of a silver gallium sulfide (AgGaS2) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) with a wide mid-IR tuning range. The singly resonant angle-tuned AgGaS2 type-II OPO was pumped by 1.06 μm pulses from a nanosecond Nd:YAG laser and yielded idler wave continuously tunable from 3.9 to 11.3 μm with a linewidth of 1 cm−1. The OPO threshold was 0.03 J/cm2 corresponding to sub-MW/cm2 pump intensity and sub-100 μJ pump energy. The slope and absolute quantum conversion efficiencies reached 41% and 22%, respectively.
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