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
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