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Stimulated Raman scattering in natural crystals of SrSO4, BaSO4 and PbSO4: High-order Stokes and anti-Stokes generation with single-wavelength UV, visible, and near-IR excitation, as well as cascaded up-conversion nonlinear χ (3)↔χ (3) lasing effects under dual-wavelength picosecond collinear coherent pumping

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Orthorhombic crystals of SrSO4, BaSO4, and PbSO4, known as natural crystals celestine, barite, and anglesite, were found to be attractive χ (3)-active nonlinear optical materials. High-order Stokes and anti-Stokes picosecond generation that spans almost two octaves has been recorded with single-wavelength laser excitation in the UV, visible, and near-IR ranges. All recorded Raman induced lasing components were identified and attributed to the SRS-promoting vibration modes of the studied crystals (ω SRS≈999 cm−1 for SrSO4,ω SRS≈985 cm−1 for BaSO4 and ω SRS≈977 cm−1 for PbSO4). Under dual-wavelength (λ f1=1.06415 μm + λ f2=0.53207 μm) collinear coherent picosecond pumping several new manifestations of cascaded χ (3)↔χ (3) nonlinear up-conversion lasing effects were observed in BaSO4 and SrSO4 crystals. We classify all three studied sulfate crystals as promising SRS-active materials for Raman laser frequency converters and as efficient χ (3)-crystals that efficiently generate Stokes and anti-Stokes frequency combs, which can enable experiments of ultra-short pulse syntheses.

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    A. A. Kaminskii

  2. Institute of Crystallography, University of Cologne, 50939, Cologne, Germany

    L. Bohatý & P. Becker

  3. Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics, Technical University of Berlin, 10623, Berlin, Germany

    H. Rhee, H. J. Eichler & O. Lux

  4. Fiber Optics Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119333, Russia

    V. V. Koltashev

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Kaminskii, A.A., Bohatý, L., Becker, P. et al. Stimulated Raman scattering in natural crystals of SrSO4, BaSO4 and PbSO4: High-order Stokes and anti-Stokes generation with single-wavelength UV, visible, and near-IR excitation, as well as cascaded up-conversion nonlinear χ (3)↔χ (3) lasing effects under dual-wavelength picosecond collinear coherent pumping. Appl. Phys. B 105, 363–378 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4388-4

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