Synchronously pumped anti-Stokes Raman-parametric laser on a CaMoO4 crystal

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S. N. Smetanin, D. P. Tereshchenko, A. G. Papashvili, E. V. Shashkov, M. D. Lapina, V. E. Shukshin, K. A. Subbotin, D. A. Lis, A. I. Titov

Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: We study generation of a crystalline anti-Stokes Raman-parametric laser with collinear phase-matching under intracavity synchronous pumping by a 1064-nm, passively Q-switched, longitudinally mode-locked Nd3+:YAG laser. As an active medium, use is made of a CaMoO4 crystal, which has optimal birefringence for the angular phase-mismatching insensitive Stokes-anti-Stokes Raman-parametric four-wave interaction at a matching angle of 71° and an angular matching width of 4°. The conditions are determined for generating a single ultrashort anti-Stokes pulse at a wavelength of 973 nm with a pulse duration of 9 ps and an energy of up to 9 μJ.
Keywords: stimulated Raman scattering, parametric Raman laser, anti-Stokes radiation, phase matching.
Received: 10.08.2022