Pulse-front-matched optical parametric amplification for sub-10-fs pulse generation tunable in the visible and near infrared

被引：242

作者：

Shirakawa, A ^{[1
]}

Sakane, I ^{[1
]}

Kobayashi, T ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 1998年 / 23卷 / 16期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.23.001292

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A noncollinear optical parametric amplifier is presented that generates transform-limited sub-10-fs pulses that are tunable in both the visible and the near infrared (NIR). The pulse-front-matched pump geometry realizes tilt-free signal amplification, and pulses as short as 6.1 fs can be obtained from 550 to 700 nm. The large angular dispersion of the idler specific to the group-velocity-matching interaction is effectively eliminated by a grating-telescope compensator, and 9-fs NIR pulses are also successfully obtained from 900 to 1300 nm. This is believed to be the first tunable sub-10-fs Light source. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America.

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页码：1292 / 1294

页数：3

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