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Development of Large High-Quality Chalcopyrite Single Crystals for Nonlinear Optical Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

W. Ruderman and
I. Zwieback
W. Ruderman
Affiliation:
INRAD, Inc., 181 Legrand Avenue, Northvale, NJ 07647, wruderman@inrad.com
I. Zwieback
Affiliation:
INRAD, Inc., 181 Legrand Avenue, Northvale, NJ 07647, wruderman@inrad.com
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Abstract

Striking progress has been made in the development of thigh optical quality, large size and low absorbing single crystals of ZnGeP2, AgGaS2 and CdGeAs2. This will now enable continuously tunable infrared laser sources to be built covering the spectral region from 3.9 to 11 µm.

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