Title :
High-energy few-cycle pulses directly generated from strongly phase-mismatched lithium niobate crystal
Author :
Zhou, B.B. ; Chong, A. ; Wise, F.W. ; Bache, M.
Author_Institution :
DTU Fotonik, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
We show that effective soliton compression can be realized in strongly phase-mismatched quadratic media. Sub-15 fs pulses are experimentally generated directly from 10-mm-long bulk lithium niobate crystal by 120-fs input pulses at 1300 nm.
Keywords :
laser materials processing; lithium compounds; optical phase matching; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; LiNbO3; bulk lithium niobate crystal; directly generated high-energy few-cycle pulses; input pulses; phase-mismatched lithium niobate crystal; phase-mismatched quadratic media; size 10 mm; soliton compression; time 120 fs; time 15 fs; wavelength 1300 nm; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Lithium niobate; Media; Nonlinear optics; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
