Optical parametric generation of 5-cycle femtosecond pulses near 3 /spl mu/m with MgO:LiNbO/sub 3/

Author

Rotermund, F. ; Wittmann, M. ; Korn, G. ; Petrov, V.

Author_Institution

Max-Born-Inst., Berlin, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

85

Abstract

Summary form only given. We demonstrate that the low group velocity mismatch (GVM) of MgO:LiNbO/sub 3/ near 3 /spl mu/m permits the generation of 2 /spl mu/J femtosecond pulses consisting of only 5 optical cycles. The experimental setup of the seeded traveling wave type OPG employs a sub-30 fs pump source and a double pass configuration in order to improve the conversion efficiency and the spectral and spatial quality.

Keywords

lithium compounds; magnesium compounds; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; 2 muJ; 3 mum; 5-cycle femtosecond pulses; 50 fs; MgO:LiNbO/sub 3/; conversion efficiency; double pass configuration; femtosecond pulse generation; low group velocity mismatch; optical parametric generation; pump source; seeded traveling wave type OPG; spatial quality; spectral quality; Laser excitation; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Optimized production technology; Pulse amplifiers; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.833918

Filename

833918