Title :
Generation and compression of femtosecond pulses in the vacuum ultraviolet by chirped-pulse four-wave difference-frequency mixing
Author :
Tzankov, P. ; Steinkellner, O. ; Zheng, J. ; Husakou, A. ; Herrmann, J. ; Freyer, W. ; Petrov, V. ; Noack, F.
Author_Institution :
Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Short Pulse Spectrosc., Berlin
Abstract :
Ultrashort vacuum ultraviolet pulses at 161 nm with energies above 1 muJ were generated by chirped-pulse four-wave difference-frequency mixing in argon-filled aluminum-coated hollow waveguide. The pulses were compressed to 140-fs pulse duration by material dispersion.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; multiwave mixing; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical waveguides; argon-filled aluminum-coated hollow waveguide; chirped-pulse four-wave mixing; difference-frequency mixing; femtosecond pulse compression; femtosecond pulse generation; material dispersion; time 140 fs; ultrashort vacuum ultraviolet pulses; wavelength 161 nm; Chirp; Hollow waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Ultrafast optics; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627723
