Generation of 7-fs pulses at 800 nm from a blue-pumped Optical Parametric Amplifier at degeneracy

Author

Siddiqui, A.M. ; Cirmi, G. ; Brida, D. ; Kärtner, F.X. ; Cerullo, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol. (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this work we report on a two-stage approach for the generation of few-optical-cycle pulses at 800 nm; (i) a FF- pumped near-IR OPA produces pulses at 1.3 mum, which are used to generate a WLC with smooth spectral amplitude and phase characteristics around 800 nm; (ii) this WLC is amplified in a broadband second harmonic-pumped OPA around degeneracy. The pulses are compressed to nearly transform-limited 6.8 fs duration by chirped mirrors.

Keywords

laser mirrors; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; blue-pumped optical parametric amplifier; broadband second harmonic-pumped OPA; chirped mirrors; phase characteristics; pulse compression; smooth spectral amplitude; time 6.8 fs; time 7 fs; two-stage few-optical-cycle pulse generation; wavelength 1.3 mum; wavelength 800 nm; Character generation; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196436

Filename

5196436