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Conversion of carbon dioxide laser radiation into visible light in proustite

E. N. Antonov, V. R. Mironenko, D. N. Nikogosyan, M. I. Glovei


Abstract: An experimental investigation was made of the angular and power characteristics of the conversion of the CO₂ laser radiation into visible light in a nonlinear proustite crystal. The pump radiation was provided by a low-power cw krypton ion laser (λ = 676.4 nm). The spectral width of the conversion band was 11.7 cm^–1. The measured quantum conversion efficiency (6.6×10^–9) was assumed to apply also to high-power pulsed pump radiation. An estimate of the maximum threshold sensitivity attainable in a real crystal was estimated allowing for the thermal background noise in the conversion band. The estimated sensitivity was 4×10^–13 W·Hz^–1/2.

UDC: 621.378.9:772.99

PACS: 42.55.Lt, 42.60.Jf, 42.60.Lh

Received: 19.02.1974

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1975, 4:8, 963–965