• DocumentCode
    3005678
  • Title

    Ultrabroadband Femtosecond Continuum Amplification in Crystals of Bismuth Triborate

  • Author

    Nikolov, Ivailo ; Buchvarov, Ivan ; Noack, Frank ; Petrov, Valentin ; Tzankov, Pancho

  • Author_Institution
    Sofia Univ., Sofia
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Ultrabroadband amplification of white-light continuum in the near-IR (~100 THz, 1.2- 2.4 mum) is demonstrated in BiB3O6, pumped by 45 fs long pulses at 800 nm, achieving an energy of 50 muJ at 1 kHz.
  • Keywords
    bismuth compounds; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; energy 50 muJ; frequency 1 kHz; monoclinic nonlinear crystal; optical parametric amplification; ultrabroadband femtosecond continuum amplification; wavelength 800 nm; white-light continuum; Bandwidth; Bismuth; Crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Spectroscopy; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452637
  • Filename
    4452637