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In current inertial confinement fusion (ICF) facilities, potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KHPO, KDP) type crystals are the only nonlinear optical (NLO) materials that can satisfy the aperture requirement of the ICF laser driver. Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (NHHPO, ADP) crystal is a typical isomer of KDP crystal, with a large nonlinear optical coefficient, high ultraviolet transmittance, and large growth sizes, which is an important deep ultraviolet (UV) NLO material. In this paper, we investigated the effect of ADP temperature on its fourth-harmonic-generation (FHG) performance. When the temperature of the ADP crystal was elevated to 48.9 °C, the 90° phase-matched FHG of the 1064 nm laser was realized. Compared with the 79° phase-matched FHG at room temperature (23.0 °C), the output energy at 266 nm, conversion efficiency, angular acceptance, and laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) increased 113%, 71%, 623%, 19.6%, respectively. It shows that elevating ADP temperature is an efficient method to improve its deep UV frequency conversion properties, which may also be available to other NLO crystals. This discovery provides a very valuable technology for the future development of UV, deep UV lasers in ICF facilities.
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