Title :
Generation of sub-50-fs pulses in the near infrared by optical parametric amplifiers based on BIBO crystals
Author :
Tzankov, Pancho ; Isaienko, Oleksandr ; Shumay, Igor ; Stockwell, Dave ; Xu, Lin ; Moisan, Nicolas ; Boschetto, Davide
Author_Institution :
Quantronix Corp., East Setauket, NY, USA
Abstract :
800-nm pumped BIBO OPAs using Type-I and Type-II phase-matching are investigated and compared for achieving sub-50-fs pulses in the NIR. The OPAs achieve their shortest pulse durations of 19.8fs and 41.3fs, respectively, at 1.8μm.
Keywords :
optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; optical pulse generation; BIBO crystals; NIR; OPA; Type-I phase-matching; Type-II phase-matching; optical parametric amplifiers; pulses generation; time 19.8 fs; time 41.3 fs; time 50 fs; wavelength 1.8 mum; wavelength 800 nm; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Tuning; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
