• DocumentCode
    1772259
  • Title

    Compact 0.1-W source of octave-spanning mid-infrared femtosecond pulses centered at 10 µm

  • Author

    Pupeza, I. ; Sanchez, Dominick ; Pronin, Oleg ; Zhang, Juyong ; Lilienfein, N. ; Seidel, Mike ; Znakovskaya, I. ; Pervak, V. ; Wei, Zhihui ; Krausz, F. ; Apolonski, Alexander ; Biegert, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. de Cienc. Fotoniques, Castelldefels, Spain
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We generate octave-spanning pulses centered at 10 μm with 100-mW-scale average powers and 100-MHz repetition rate via intrapulse difference-frequency mixing driven in LiGaS2 by a nonlinearly compressed Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator.
  • Keywords
    infrared spectra; laser mode locking; lenses; light sources; lithium compounds; optical Kerr effect; optical frequency conversion; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; ytterbium; LiGaS2; YAG:Yb; compact light source; intrapulse difference-frequency mixing; nonlinearly compressed Kerr-lens mode-locked ytterbium:YAG thin-disk oscillator; octave-spanning midinfrared femtosecond pulse generation; power 0.1 W; wavelength 10 mum; Media; Mirrors; Optical pulses; Optical switches; Oscillators; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989851
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1772259