Title :
Suppression of group velocity dispersion and diffraction of pulsed beams in optical parametric amplifiers
Author :
Butkus, R. ; Orlov, S. ; Piskarskas, A. ; Smilgevicius, Valerijus ; Stabinis, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Quantum Electron., Vilnius Univ., Lithuania
Abstract :
It is revealed that suppression of temporal and spatial spread of pulsed beams can be achieved by linear parametric amplification. An effective reduction of beam diffraction in degenerate parametric amplifier is demonstrated experimentally.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; light diffraction; optical dispersion; optical parametric amplifiers; degenerate parametric amplifier; group velocity dispersion; linear parametric amplification; optical parametric amplifiers; pulsed beam diffraction;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
