• DocumentCode
    3594528
  • Title

    Generating energetic few-cycle pulses at 800 nm using soliton compression with type 0 cascaded quadratic interaction in lithium niobate

  • Author

    Bache, M. ; Zhou, B.B. ; Chong, A. ; Wise, F.W.

  • Author_Institution
    DTU Fotonik, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lygnby, Denmark
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show that ultra-short few-cycle pulses can be generated through soliton compression of energetic femtosecond pulses from a Ti:Sapphire regenerative amplifier. The compression relies on cascaded type 0 second-harmonic generation in mm-length lithium niobate crystals.
  • Keywords
    Lithium niobate; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Physics; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Scanning probe microscopy; Solitons; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5499960