Generation of high energy sub-20-fs pulses tunable in the 250nm-310nm region by frequency doubling of a high-power non-collinear OPA

Author

Beutler, Marcus ; Ghotbi, Masood ; Noack, Frank ; Brida, Daniele ; Manzoni, Cristian ; Cerullo, Giulio

Author_Institution

Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report the generation of tunable DUV pulses with pulse durations below 20 fs at 10 muJ energy level. The pulses are generated by frequency doubling of a high-power non-collinear OPA and compressed to almost transform-limited duration.

Keywords

laser tuning; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; energy 10 muJ; high-energy pulse generation; high-power noncollinear OPA; optical frequency doubling; optical pulse compression; time 20 fs; transform-limited duration; tunable DUV pulse; wavelength 250 nm to 310 nm; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics; (190.2620) Harmonic generation and mixing; (190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225393