An experiment for efficient broadband frequency mixing using chirped pulses

Summary form only given. The main limitation to efficient broad bandwidth frequency conversion originates from the dispersion of the nonlinear crystal. To overcome such severe restrictions on efficiency, an alternative technique in theory has been proposed in which the generating beams to be mixed in the nonlinear material are chirped at different chirp rates such that the phase-matching condition can be met at all times. For the general description of the scheme we consider a collinear type I mixing process.