Abstract

Tunable ultraviolet radiation in the 200–230-nm region has been generated with beta barium borate crystals by type I sum-frequency mixing of the second harmonic with the fundamental beam from a dye laser pumped by the second harmonic of the same Nd:YAG laser. A noncollinear phase-matching configuration has made it possible to realize conversion efficiency of 21% at 208.3 nm with input power densities as low as 28 MW/cm² for the fundamental and 2.4 MW/cm² for its second-harmonic radiation. The absorption characteristic of a standard DNA sample has been studied with the generated tunable ultraviolet source, revealing additional features compared with those obtained with a spectrophotometer.

© 1998 Optical Society of America

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