A single-material-double-process parametric laser-wavelength converter includes a pump-laser source, a nonlinear optical material, a first optical reflective element, and a second optical reflective element. The pump-laser source is configured to emit a pump-laser pulse. The nonlinear optical material receives the pump-laser pulse and generates a signal-laser pulse and a partially depleted pump-laser pulse through optical parametric amplification. The first optical reflective element is configured to reflect the signal-laser pulse back to the nonlinear optical material. The second optical reflective element is configured to reflect the partially depleted pump-laser pulse back to the nonlinear optical material. With an appropriate adjustment on the reflecting path lengths, the nonlinear optical material is configured to receive the temporally synchronized signal-laser pulse and the partially depleted pump-laser pulse to generate an idler output through difference frequency generation. Both optical parametric amplification and difference frequency generation occur in the same nonlinear optical material. |