Spatio-temporal characterization of the signal pulse-shortening in Type II optical parametric amplifier using BBO and BIBO crystals

Author

Tzankov, Pancho ; Roth, Matthias ; Kong, Yufei ; Xu, Lin ; Sartania, Zaza

Author_Institution

Quantronix Corp., Setauket, NY

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Comparison of the performance of an optical parametric amplifier is presented using BBO or BIBO crystals in Type II. The spatio-temporal effect of the parametric pulse-shortening is experimentally investigated with respect to the signal wavelength.

Keywords

barium compounds; bismuth compounds; optical materials; optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; optical pulse compression; spatiotemporal phenomena; BBO; BBO crystals; BIBO crystals; BiB₃O₆; nonlinear optical crystals; phase-matched OPA; signal pulse-shortening; signal wavelength; spatio-temporal characterization; type II optical parametric amplifier; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics; (190.4970) Parametric oscillators and amplifiers; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571869