• DocumentCode
    3546835
  • Title

    Generation of high-energy 14.5 fs pulses at 1.5 /spl mu/m by optical parametric amplification

  • Author

    Nisoli, M. ; Stagira, S. ; De Silvestri, S. ; Svelto, O. ; Valiulis, G. ; Varanavicius, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    3-8 May 1998
  • Firstpage
    490
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. We report on traveling-wave parametric conversion of <20-fs Ti:sapphire laser pulses in type II BBO crystals yielding tunable infrared pulses as short as 14.5 fs with a few microjoules energy at a 1-kHz repetition rate. The choice of the phase-matching type is discussed.
  • Keywords
    laser tuning; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; 14.5 fs; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; BBO; BaB2O4; Ti:sapphire laser pulses; high-enrgy ultrashort pulse generation; optical parametric amplification; phase-matching type; pulse compression; seed pulse; traveling-wave parametric conversion; tunable infrared pulses; type II BBO crystals; Laser tuning; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optimized production technology; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-339-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.1998.676535
  • Filename
    676535