Abstract
This paper presents the effect of single pulse stability of divergence angle, beam pointing angle and amplitude of green and yellow radiation pulses of an unstable resonator copper vapour laser (CVL) oscillator in the sum frequency mixing and second harmonic. The conversion efficiency of sum frequency generation was lower compared to second harmonic processes despite larger fundamental power being used in sum frequency experiments. However the net UV power obtained at the sum frequency was higher than both of the second harmonic UV frequencies. Lower SFG conversion efficiency (12.4%—271nm) compared to SHG (16.7%—255nm, 14.5%—289nm) of individual CVL radiations is attributed to difference in single pulse stability of beam pointing, divergence and amplitude fluctuation of both CVL radiations in addition to commonly known fact of spatio-temporal mis-match. At the same fundamental input power (2.7W), higher SH conversion efficiency of yellow (12.7%) compared to green (11.0%) is attributed to its better single pulse stability of beam pointing and divergence.
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