Picosecond Stimulated Raman Scattering of SrWO4Crystal

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) of picosecond pulses is investigated in a new crystal SrWO4. The second harmonic generation of a mode-locked Nd:YAG laser system is used as the pump source. In an external single-pass configuration, the SRS thresholds for the first to the fourth Stokes lines are measured. For the first Stokes line, the steady-state gain coefficient of the SrWO4 crystal is calculated to be 15.96 cm/GW. In our experiment, as many as five Stokes lines (559.23 nm, 589.61 nm, 623.49 nm, 661.50 nm, 704.44 nm) and three anti-Stokes lines (506.97 nm, 484.34 nm, 463.65 nm) are observed, and the total conversion efficiency is as high as 62%.