• DocumentCode
    1771594
  • Title

    Few-cycle, broadband, mid-infrared parametric oscillator pumped by a 20-fs Ti:sapphire laser

  • Author

    Chaitanya Kumar, S. ; Esteban-Martin, Adolfo ; Ideguchi, Takuro ; Yan, M. ; Holzner, Simon ; Hansch, Theodor W. ; Picque, Nathalie ; Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. de Cienc. Fotoniques, Castelldefels, Spain
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report a broadband mid-IR femtosecond OPO tunable across 2179-3732 nm, pumped by 20-fs pulses at 790 nm, generating idler pulses of 4.3 optical cycles (33 fs) at 2282 nm, with high stability and beam-quality.
  • Keywords
    infrared spectra; laser beams; laser stability; optical parametric oscillators; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical tuning; beam-quality; broadband midIR femtosecond OPO tuning; idler pulse generation; midinfrared parametric oscillator; optical pumping; time 20 fs; time 33 fs; titanium:sapphire laser; wavelength 2179 nm to 3732 nm; wavelength 790 nm; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Dispersion; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989511