FEMTOSECOND HIGH-CONTRAST PULSES FROM A PARAMETRIC GENERATOR PUMPED BY THE SELF-COMPRESSED 2ND-HARMONIC OF A ND-GLASS LASER

Authors
DANIELIUS R DUBIETIS A VALIULIS G PISKARSKAS A
Citation
R. Danielius et al., FEMTOSECOND HIGH-CONTRAST PULSES FROM A PARAMETRIC GENERATOR PUMPED BY THE SELF-COMPRESSED 2ND-HARMONIC OF A ND-GLASS LASER, Optics letters, 20(21), 1995, pp. 2225-2227
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
20
Issue
21
Year of publication
1995
Pages
2225 - 2227
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1995)20:21<2225:FHPFAP>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Nearly transform-limited femtosecond pulses tunable from 635 to 3000 n m were generated by a traveling-wave type II phase-matching barium ber ate parametric generator pumped by the self-compressed second harmonic of a Nd:glass laser. A total conversion efficiency of 10% with output pulses as short as 200 fs has been achieved. Numerical simulation ind icated that the relative amount of energy contained in the output puls e wings was reduced by similar to 4 x 10(4) compared with that in the pump. (C) 1995 Optical Society of America