Ultrafast rainbow: Tunable ultrashort pulses from a solid-state kilohertz system

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Wilson, KR
Yakovlev, VV
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[1] Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego
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10.1364/JOSAB.14.000444
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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Two stages of type II optical parametric amplification of a white-light continuum are used for efficient generation of ultrashort (30-50-fs) pulses at kilohertz repetition rates. Various nonlinear techniques can be used to cover the range from 12 mu m to 280 nm. The amplitude and the phase of the generated UV pulses are characterized by use of frequency-resolved optical gating. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.
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