Enhanced production of coherent pulsed radiation at 125 nm: the route towards a tabletop VUV laser.

Sebastien Chenais (1) , Sebastien Forget (1) , Marie-Claude Castex (1)

1 LPL - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers

A novel approach is used to enhance by nearly two orders of magnitude the conversion efficiency of a 125 nm-coherent source, based on four-wave mixing in room-temperature mercury vapor. Saturation issues are observed and discussed.

Mots clés: VUV Laser; non-linear optics; four-wave mixing

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Sebastien Chenais, Sebastien Forget, Marie-Claude Castex. Enhanced production of coherent pulsed radiation at 125 nm: the route towards a tabletop VUV laser.. 2006. ⟨hal-00022367⟩