… Though nonlinear optical technology is now well into its … improvements in pump lasers and
nonlinear materials and by the … ideas of optical frequency conversion in nonlinear crystals and …

… nonlinear optical coefficients of absorption and refraction. Also, we introduced the concept of
frequency conversion through nonlinear … of linear and nonlinear optical processes in section…

… to the exploration of nonlinear optics. The essential goal of practical nonlinear frequency
conversion is the efficient generation of new spectral components from the input frequencies. At …

… Evidence of relatively large nonlinear absorption has been observed (69). For I nsec pulses
at 1064 nm, catastrophic laser damage thresholds have been measured in excess of 7 GW …

… of the generated frequency from any … frequency conversion to the ultraviolet and vacuum
ultraviolet (VUV). In this Letter, we explore gas-phase, nonlinear frequency up-conversion in a …

… NLO (nonlinear optics… frequency conversion. This review is organized as follow: in Section
2., we start with a short overview of the fundamentals of frequency conversion using nonlinear …

… ) inorganic nonlinear crystal that has found broad applications for frequency conversion of
laser … this material an attractive candidate for nonlinear frequency conversion of laser light in …

… In recent years, chalcopyrites have distinguished themselves as the nonlinear optical
materials of … The superior performance of these crystals arises from their high nonlinear optical …

… types of frequency conversion, such as optical parametric amplifiers. With a single frequency,
… wide wavelength flexibility at high power and conversion efficiency. As solid state devices …

… element on the frequency conversion wavelength in boron … In addition, the nonlinear
absorption properties and ultrafast … All of the studied crystals showed nonlinear absorption (NA). …