Tunable femtosecond vacuum UV pulses at a repetition rate of 1 kHz

Author

Mero, M. ; Zheng, J. ; Tzankov, P. ; Steinkellner, O.

Author_Institution

Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Short Pulse Spectrosc., Berlin

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This work extends the wavelength range of the four-wave mixing (FWM) technique to 170-180 nm using the third-harmonic of a Ti:sapphire laser as the pump and pulses from an optical parametric amplifier pumped by the same Ti:sapphire laser as the idler in the FWM process. By utilizing properly chirped pump and idler pulses, generation of shorter VUV pulses may be possible.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al₂O₃:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; VUV pulse generation; chirped pump; femtosecond pulses; four-wave mixing; frequency 1 kHz; idler pulses; optical parametric amplifier; optical pump; third-harmonic generation; tunable pulses; vacuum UV pulses; wavelength 170 nm to 180 nm; Four-wave mixing; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission; 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

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386292

Filename

4386292