• DocumentCode
    1659486
  • Title

    Fully efficient adiabatic downconversion of broadband Ti:Sapphire oscillator pulses

  • Author

    Moses, Jeffrey ; Kärtner, Franz X. ; Suchowski, Haim

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate adiabatic downconversion of a 110-nm band from a Ti:sapphire oscillator to the infrared, spanning 1550-2450 nm, with near-100% efficiency. The technique can potentially deliver multi-octave-spanning pulses for parametric amplification.
  • Keywords
    infrared sources; optical parametric amplifiers; optical parametric oscillators; optical pulse generation; sapphire; titanium; Al2O3:Ti; Ti:sapphire oscillator; adiabatic downconversion; broadband oscillator pulses; multioctave-spanning pulses; parametric amplification; wavelength 1550 nm to 2450 nm; Broadband amplifiers; Frequency conversion; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Oscillators; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325880