Down-Conversion of Short-Wavelength Radiation in LBO Crystal

Abstract

Comparative model analysis of the possibilities of down-conversion into the terahertz (THz) frequency range of radiation of all-solid-state femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser systems and hybrid systems based on the same type lasers and equipped with amplifiers on XeF(C-A) and XeCl(C-A) molecules of excimer gases with harmonic generators on nonlinear LBO crystals is performed. It is established that when the crystal is cooled to a temperature of 80 K, the coefficient of optical losses in the frequency range from 0.2 to 1.5 THz linearly decreases in the direction of the X axis by 5–6 times down to 0.1–0.2 cm^–1. It is shown that the use of hybrid laser systems as pumping sources will allow the power of generated THz pulses to be increased from 3.5 to 20 times.