Powerful sub-100-fs pulses broadly tunable in the visible from a blue-pumped parametric generator and amplifier

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作者
DiTrapani, P
Andreoni, A
Solcia, C
Banfi, GP
Danielius, R
Piskarskas, A
Foggi, P
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[1] UNIV MILAN, IST NAZL FIS MAT, I-22100 COMO, ITALY
[2] UNIV PAVIA, DEPT ELECT, I-27100 PAVIA, ITALY
[3] VILNIUS STATE UNIV, LASER RES CTR, LT-2054 VILNIUS, LITHUANIA
[4] EUROPEAN LAB NONLINEAR SPECT, I-50125 FLORENCE, ITALY
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10.1364/JOSAB.14.001245
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
By combining a low-gain single-pass colinear amplifier with a high-gain noncollinear seeder, in which the group velocities are self-matched, we demonstrate highly efficient parametric conversion of frequency-doubled Ti:sapphire pulses of hundreds-microjoule energy. With beta-barium borate in both seeder and amplifier, bandwidth-limited signal pulses tunable between 0.46 and 0.66 mu m are obtained at a 1-kHz-repetition rate,with duration as short as 78 fs and energy as much as 17 mu J in the visible. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.
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