Abstract:In order to design high-power narrow linewidth 4.3 μm laser, the narrow linewidth 4.3 μm laser was obtained by ZnGeP2 OPO (optical parametric oscillation) pumped by a 2.7 μm laser. Experimental results were analyzed in detail. The pump source was a 2.7 μm KTiOPO4 OPO laser pumped by a 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser, and the KTiOPO4 OPO was singly resonated. Two identical KTiOPO4 crystals were placed with opposite optical axis to compensate the walk off effect. The KTiOPO4 crystals were cut asΦ=0°,θ=62° to generate 2.7 μm wave band laser. To utilize the large effective nonlinear coefficient, the phase matching was based on type Ⅱ(B) (o→o+e). The ZnGeP2 OPO was singly resonated too. To output narrow linewidth laser, the phase matching is based on typeⅡ(B) (o→o+e).The ZnGeP2 crystal was cut as Φ=0°,θ=68° to generate 4.3 μm laser. The energy of the 2.7 μm laser is 7.5 mJ with a pulse of 8.6 ns and line-width 12 nm.The pulse energy of 2.12 mJ at 4.26 μm with an optical-optical conversion efficiency of 28.3% and a slop efficiency of 32.6% is obtained, and the pulse width is 8.7 ns, the line-width is 30 nm. The beam qualities M2 of horizontal and vertical directions are 6.2 and 13.5, respectively.