Title :
Noncollinear optical parametric amplification of cw light, continua and vacuum fluctuations
Author :
Breuer, Markus ; Homann, Christian ; Lochbrunner, Stefan ; Riedle, Eberhard
Author_Institution :
Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Munich
Abstract :
The operation of cw seeded 2-stage noncollinear optical parametric amplifiers (NOPAs) with a 150 fs Ti:sapphire pump source and a 10 ps Nd:VAN system is reported. A white light seeded NOPA was investigated for comparison. The parametric super-fluorescence generator seeded NOPA was also studied. The spectral distribution of the single shot output NOPAs seeded by cw, white light and optical parametric generator (OPG) are compared. The vacuum fluctuations in NOPAs using the three different seeds are also studied.
Keywords :
fluctuations; high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; Ti-sapphire pump source; cw seeded 2-stage noncollinear optical parametric amplifiers; optical parametric generator; parametric superfluorescence generator; single shot output; spectral distribution; vacuum fluctuations; white light; Bandwidth; Biomedical optical imaging; Fluctuations; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386837
