High resolution infrared spectroscopy on the Mark III free-electron laser

Author

Szarmes, Eric B. ; Madey, John M.J.

Author_Institution

Free-Electron Laser Lab., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

15-18 Nov 1993

Firstpage

728

Lastpage

729

Abstract

We have developed the capability to phase lock the picosecond infrared optical pulses from the Mark III free-electron laser, and have implemented an apparatus to compress these pulses down to several hundred femtoseconds. Spectroscopy with sub-megahertz resolution is possible by filtering the individual longitudinal modes, and Doppler-free and coherent nonlinear spectroscopies can be performed using the unfiltered train of ultrashort pulses

Keywords

free electron lasers; high-speed optical techniques; infrared spectroscopy; laser mode locking; optical pulse compression; spectroscopic light sources; Doppler-free spectroscopy; Mark III free-electron laser; coherent nonlinear spectroscopy; high resolution infrared spectroscopy; longitudinal mode filtering; phase locking; picosecond infrared optical pulses; pulse compression; sub-megahertz resolution; ultrashort pulse unfiltered train; Free electron lasers; Infrared spectra; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1263-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1993.379397

Filename

379397