Abstract:
An express technique is proposed for the study of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in crystals excited by long trains of picosecond pulses. SRS was studied in several crystals excited by 15-ps pulses from an Nd3+:CLNGG disordered garnet laser. SRS in SrMoO4 and Ca3(VO4)2 crystals was obtained and investigated for the first time, and compared with SRS in popular SRS-active BaWO4 and KGd(WO4)2 crystals.