Femtosecond mid-infrared difference-frequency-generation tunable between 3.2 μm and 4.8 μm from a compact fiber source

Author

Erny, C. ; Moutzouris, K. ; Biegert, J. ; Keller, U. ; Kuhlke, D. ; Adler, F. ; Leitenstorfer, A.

Author_Institution

ETH Zurich, Zurich

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

A broadband fiber-based femtosecond laser source, tunable in the mid-IR between 3.2 μm and 4.8 μm, exhibiting a maximum output power of more than 1 mW, and a conversion efficiency of more than 30%, is demonstrated. For experiment commercially available Er:fiber two-branch amplifier laser system is used.

Keywords

erbium; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser tuning; optical fibre amplifiers; optical frequency conversion; Er:fiber two-branch amplifier laser system; JkJk:Er; broadband fiber-based femtosecond laser source; compact fiber source; femtosecond mid-infrared difference-frequency-generation; laser tuning; wavelength 3.2 μm to 4.8 μm; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser tuning; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical mixing; Optical pulse generation; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0930-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385801

Filename

4385801