Generation and compression of femtosecond pulses in the vacuum ultraviolet by chirped-pulse four-wave difference-frequency mixing

Author

Tzankov, P. ; Steinkellner, O. ; Zheng, J. ; Husakou, A. ; Herrmann, J. ; Freyer, W. ; Petrov, V. ; Noack, F.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Ultrashort vacuum ultraviolet pulses at 161 nm with energies above 1 muJ were generated by chirped-pulse four-wave difference-frequency mixing in argon-filled aluminum-coated hollow waveguide. The pulses were compressed to 140-fs pulse duration by material dispersion.

Keywords

chirp modulation; multiwave mixing; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical waveguides; argon-filled aluminum-coated hollow waveguide; chirped-pulse four-wave mixing; difference-frequency mixing; femtosecond pulse compression; femtosecond pulse generation; material dispersion; time 140 fs; ultrashort vacuum ultraviolet pulses; wavelength 161 nm; Chirp; Hollow waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Ultrafast optics; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627723

Filename

4627723