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This paper presents our work on a pulsed single-frequency tunable optical parametric oscillator based on orientation-patterned gallium arsenide. Owing to crystal temperature tuning, this source covers the 10.2–11.2 and 7.6–8.6 \(\upmu \hbox {m}\) ranges in single-longitudinal mode operation with a linewidth below 30 MHz. Standoff detection of ammonia around 10.35 and 10.5 \(\upmu \hbox {m}\) is performed by implementing this source in an Integrated Path Differential Absorption Lidar (IP-DIAL) setup.
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We acknowledge the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche and Direction Générale de l’Armement for partial funding (ANR-11 ASTR-016). The authors would like to thank Jean-François Lampin and his team from IEMN (Lille, France) for lending us a CW DFB-QCL.
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This article is part of the topical collection “Mid-infrared and THz Laser Sources and Applications” guest edited by Wei Ren, Paolo De Natale and Gerard Wysocki.
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Armougom, J., Melkonian, JM., Dherbecourt, JB. et al. A narrowband infrared source based on orientation-patterned GaAs for standoff detection of chemicals. Appl. Phys. B 124, 133 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-018-7006-x
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