Affiliation:
1. P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
A review of researches that both initiated and provided development of a hybrid IR laser system based on conversion of Q-switched radio-frequency discharge slab CO and CO2 lasers in various nonlinear crystals is presented. The broadband laser system developed operates in the spectral range from ~2 to ~20 μm due to generation of emission on difference and sum frequencies in these crystals.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus