TUNABLE FEMTOSECOND PULSES CLOSE TO THE TRANSFORM LIMIT FROM TRAVELING-WAVE PARAMETRIC CONVERSION

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作者
BANFI, GP
DITRAPANI, P
DANIELIUS, R
PISKARSKAS, A
RIGHINI, R
SANTA, I
机构
[1] VILNIUS UNIV,CTR LASER RES,VILNIUS 2054,LITHUANIA
[2] UNIV BAYREUTH,INST PHYS,W-8580 BAYREUTH,GERMANY
[3] EUROPEAN LAB NONLINEAR SPECT,I-50125 FLORENCE,ITALY
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10.1364/OL.18.001547
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report the generation of ultrashort pulses by a barium borate traveling-wave parametric converter pumped by a 200-fs pulse at 0.6 mum from a dye-laser source. With a pump energy of less than 100 muJ and type II phase matching, we obtained a 0.75-3-mum tuning range, 15-20% total conversion efficiency, and a pulse duration comparable with that of the pump. In part of the tuning range the time-bandwidth product of the tunable pulses was 0.7, the same value as for the pump.
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