EFFICIENT GENERATION OF NARROW-BANDWIDTH PICOSECOND PULSES BY FREQUENCY-DOUBLING OF FEMTOSECOND CHIRPED PULSES

Authors
RAOULT F BOSCHERON ACL HUSSON D SAUTERET C MODENA A MALKA V DORCHIES F MIGUS A
Citation
F. Raoult et al., EFFICIENT GENERATION OF NARROW-BANDWIDTH PICOSECOND PULSES BY FREQUENCY-DOUBLING OF FEMTOSECOND CHIRPED PULSES, Optics letters, 23(14), 1998, pp. 1117-1119
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
23
Issue
14
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1117 - 1119
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1998)23:14<1117:EGONPP>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
We demonstrate efficient generation of picosecond narrow-bandwidth pul ses by frequency mixing of broadband opposite chirped pulses in a type I doubling crystal. This procedure allows us to produce picosecond pu lses that are perfectly synchronized with femtosecond pulses. The expe riment shows a decrease of the initial bandwidth by a factor of more t han 30, while a high conversion efficiency is maintained. (C) 1998 Opt ical Society of America.