Noncollinearly phase-matched femtosecond optical parametric amplification with a 2000 cm-1 bandwidth

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Shirakawa, A [1 ]
Kobayashi, T [1 ]
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[1] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
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10.1063/1.120670
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O59 [应用物理学];
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An optical parametric amplifier generating as short as 14 fs pulses in a visible region has been constructed in a noncollinear phase-matching configuration, The group-velocity matching between the signal and idler enormously broadens the gain bandwidth up to 2000 cm(-1), which is mainly limited by the chirp of the-seed pulses. Pulses shorter than 20 fs are tunable from 550 to 690 nm by scanning the delay-line of the pump beam. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.
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