Generation of high energy, ultrashort pulses in the near-IR with an OPA system based on BIBO

Author

Ghotbi, Masood ; Beutler, Marcus ; Petrov, Valentin ; Noack, Frank ; Gaydardzhiev, Alexander

Author_Institution

Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Short Pulse Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Using a two stage, white-light seeded, collinear, femtosecond optical parametric amplifier based on BIBO crystal, sub-30-fs signal pulses with energies exceeding 200-muJ, corresponding to 5-fold pulse shortening and ~30% internal conversion efficiency, are generated.

Keywords

bismuth compounds; optical materials; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; BIBO crystal; BiB₃O₆; femtosecond optical parametric amplifier; high-energy ultrashort pulse generation; laser pulse shortening; optical conversion efficiency; time 30 fs; white-light seeded collinear OPA system; Bandwidth; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Signal generators; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics; (190.4970) Parametric oscillators and amplifiers; (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

5225942