Abstract
In this letter, a non-critical phase-matching (NCPM) BaGa4Se7 (BGSe) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) was demonstrated with a home-made acousto-optic (AO) Q-switched Ho:YLF laser as the pump source. The idler wavelength tunability was recorded to be 9393.3 to 10627.4 nm with BGSe crystal temperature varying from 45 to 5 Celsius (˚C), corresponding to an average wavelength adjustment of 30.85 nm/˚C. Up to 200 mW of idler average output power at 10219 nm was obtained with pulse repetition frequency (PRF) at 200 Hz, the slope efficiency and pump-to-idler efficiency are 8.04 % and 5 %, respectively. In addition, in the angle tuning experiment, a refined Sellmeier Equation (S-E) was derived based on the discrepancy between the experimental data and the theoretical calculations based on the existing S-Es. However, it was found that the deviations between experimental measurement data and theoretical calculations in NCPM experiment were still too large to be ignored after using the refined S-E. Probably, the phenomenon was caused by the thermo-optic dispersion formula dn/dT provided by references were not precise enough for describing NCPM BGSe crystal in waveband ∼ 10 μm.
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