Powerful sub-100-fs pulses broadly tunable in the visible from a blue-pumped parametric generator and amplifier

Year: 1997

Authors: Di Trapani P., Andreoni A., Solcia C., Banfi G.P., Danielius R., Piskarskas A., Foggi P.

Autors Affiliation: Ist. Naz. di Fisica della Materia, University of Milano, 22100 Como, Italy; Department of Electronics, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy; Laser Research Center, University of Vilnius, 2054 Vilnius, Lithuania; Europ. Lab. Nonlinear Spectroscopies, 50125 Firenze, Italy; Ist. Sci. Matematiche, Fisiche C., University of Milano at Como, Via Lucini, 3-22100 Como, Italy

Abstract: By combining a low-gain single-pass collinear amplifier with a high-gain noncollinear seeder, in which the group velocities are self-matched, we demonstrate highly efficient parametric conversion of frequency-doubled Ti:sapphire pulses of hundreds-microjoule energy. With ß-barium borate in both seeder and amplifier, bandwidth-limited signal pulses tunable between 0.46 and 0.66 µm are obtained at a 1-kHz-repetition rate, with duration as short as 78 fs and energy as much as 17 µJ in the visible.

Journal/Review: JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Volume: 14 (5)      Pages from: 1245  to: 1248

KeyWords: Sapphire regenerative amplifier; Femtosecond light-pulses
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001245

Citations: 19
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