• DocumentCode
    1771705
  • Title

    Tunable and near-fourier-limited few-cycle mid-IR pulses via an adiabatically chirped difference frequency grating

  • Author

    Krogen, Peter R. ; Suchowski, Haim ; Stein, George Juraj ; Kartner, Franz X. ; Moses, Jeffrey

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A μJ-level source of few-cycle, mid-IR pulses tunable over 2-4 microns is demonstrated based on adiabatic difference frequency generation. This opens up the possibility for single-cycle mid-IR pulses controllable by a near-IR phase shaper.
  • Keywords
    diffraction gratings; laser tuning; optical frequency conversion; optical pulse generation; μJ-level source; adiabatic difference frequencγ generation; adiabatically chirped difference frequency grating; near-Fourier-limited few-cycle mid-IR pulses; near-IR phase shaper; single-cycle mid-IR pulses; tunable few-cycle mid-IR pulses; Chirp; Crystals; Dispersion; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical variables measurement; Pulse measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989566