Title :
Broadband, rapidly tunable, BiB3O6 femtosecond optical parametric oscillator directly pumped by a Ti:Sapphire
Author :
Esteban-Martin, Adolfo ; Ramaiah-Badarla, V. ; Petrov, V. ; Ebrahim-Zadeh, M.
Author_Institution :
ICFO-lnstitut de Cienc. Fotoniques, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
We report a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator based on BiB3O6 pumped directly by a Kerr-lens-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser, providing broad, continuous, and rapid tuning in the near-infrared using cavity delay detuning with self -compressed signal pulses.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric oscillators; optical pulse compression; optical pumping; optical tuning; BiB3O6; Kerr-lens-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser; broadband tunability; cavity delay detuning; femtosecond optical parametric oscillator; near-infrared spectra; optical pumping; self-compressed signal pulses; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Tuning; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4