A NEW APPROACH FOR THE GENERATION OF ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSES

被引:110
作者
YOSHIKAWA, S [1 ]
IMASAKA, T [1 ]
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[1] KYUSHU UNIV,FAC ENGN,FUKUOKA 812,JAPAN
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10.1016/0030-4018(93)90530-I
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A short optical pulse is essential in studies on ultrafast phenomena and nonlinear spectroscopy. Laser pulses as short as 6 fs were generated in 1987, but there has been no breakthrough since. In this paper we propose a new approach to generate a shorter optical pulse at terawatt levels based on a two-color stimulated Raman effect using a simple optical system.
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