FEMTOSECOND PULSES IN THE MIDINFRARED GENERATED BY DOWNCONVERSION OF A TRAVELING-WAVE DYE-LASER

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ELSAESSER, T [1 ]
NUSS, MC [1 ]
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[1] TECH UNIV MUNICH,PHYS DEPT E11,W-8000 MUNICH 2,GERMANY
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10.1364/OL.16.000411
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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Amplified pulses from a colliding-pulse mode-locked dye laser at 620 nm and the output of a femtosecond traveling-wave dye cell are mixed in a LiIO3 crystal to generate femtosecond pulses in the wavelength range near 5-mu-m. As much as 10% of the photons from the traveling-wave laser are converted to stable infrared pulses of less than 400-fs duration, 10-nJ energy, and 8-kHz repetition rate.
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