Generation of Tunable Infrared Femtosecond Pulses via Parametric Visible-to-Infrared Frequency Conversion

J. Darginavicius, E. Rubino, G. Tamosauskas, D. Faccio, G. Valiulis, P. Di Trapani, A. Piskarskas, A. Dubietis

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Abstract

We propose two methods for ultrashort pulse parametric visible-to-infrared frequency conversion, that are directly applied to extend the tuning range of a commercial Ti:sapphire laser-noncollinear optical parametric amplifier system. The first method is based on broadband noncollinear four-wave optical parametric amplification in fused silica, and the second is based on cascaded three-wave parametric interaction in a single BBO crystal. A proof-of-principle experiments demonstrate generation of sub-30-fs, similar to 20 mu J pulses, broadly tunable across the infrared (1-3 mu m) spectral range.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)221-229
Number of pages9
JournalLithuanian Journal of Physics
Volume51
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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