OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION OF FEMTOSECOND PULSES TUNABLE FROM THE BLUE TO THE INFRARED WITH MICROJOULE ENERGIES

Authors
GREENFIELD SR WASIELEWSKI MR
Citation
Sr. Greenfield et Mr. Wasielewski, OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION OF FEMTOSECOND PULSES TUNABLE FROM THE BLUE TO THE INFRARED WITH MICROJOULE ENERGIES, Applied optics, 34(15), 1995, pp. 2688-2691
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
34
Issue
15
Year of publication
1995
Pages
2688 - 2691
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1995)34:15<2688:OPAOFP>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
A white-light continuum is used to seed a two-stage optical parametric amplifier pumped by the second harmonic of a regeneratively amplified Ti:sapphire laser system operating at 824 nm. Microjoule energies are achieved in the signal branch, which is tunable from 472 to 785 nm. N ear-transform-limited sub-200-fs pulses are attainable over the vast m ajority of the tuning range.