Title :
Generation of tunable, ultrashort pulses in the near-IR with an OPA system based on BIBO
Author :
Ghotbi, Masood ; Petrov, Valentin ; Noack, Frank
Author_Institution :
Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Short Pulse Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Using a two stage, white-light seeded, collinear, femtosecond optical parametric amplifier based on BIBO crystals, sub-30-fs signal pulses tunable across the whole spectral range of 1150–1600 nm with energies exceeding 80-µJ are generated.
Keywords :
Crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal generators; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2