A study was made of the conversion of the CO 2 laser radiation into the second harmonic in proustite at power levels close to the damaged threshold of the proustite crystal. The highest power conversion coefficient was 2.2 % . The experimentally observed saturation of the conversion efficiency was due to thermal self-interaction.
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Nikogosyan et al. (1975) studied this question.