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

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1245-1248

  Di Trapani, P ^a   Andreoni, A ^a   Solcia, C ^b   Banfi, G P ^b   Danielius, R ^c   Piskarskas, A ^c   Foggi, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031507910     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001245     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. W. Joosen, H. J. Bakker, L. D. Noordman, H. G. Muller, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell, "Parametric generation in β-barium borate of intense femtosecond pulses near 800 nm," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 8, 2087 (1991).
2. R. Danielius, A. Piskarskas, A. Stabinis, G. P. Banfi, P. Di Trapani, and R. Righini, "Traveling-wave parametric generation of widely tunable highly coherent femtosecond pulses," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 2222 (1993).
3. 4 parametric laser pumped by femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser-amplifier system," in Proceedings of UPS'93, Lith. J. Phys. 33, 305 (1993).
4. F. Seifert, V. Petrov, and F. Noack, "Sub-100-fs optical parametric generator pumped by a high-repetition-rate Ti: sapphire regenerative amplifier system," Opt. Lett. 19, 837 (1994).
5. M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, V. Magni, O. Svelto, R. Danielius, A. Piskarskas, G. Valulis, and A. Varanavicius, "Highly efficient parametric conversion of femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser pulses at 1 kHz," Opt. Lett. 19, 1973 (1994).
6. V. Petrov, F. Seifert, and F. Noak, "High repetition rate traveling wave optical parametric generator producing nearly bandwidth limited 50 fs infrared light pulses," Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 268 (1994).
7. V. Petrov, F. Seifert, and F. Noak, "Visible optical parametric generator producing nearly transform-limited femtosecond light pulses at 1 kHz repetition rate," Appl. Opt. 33, 6988 (1994).
8. G. Valiulis, Three Light Pulse Interaction Software, Version 4.0 (Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1995).
9. M. K. Reed, M. K. Steiner-Shepard, and D. K. Negus, "Widely tunable femtosecond optical parametric amplifier at 250 kHz with a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier," Opt. Lett. 19, 1855 (1994).
10. S. R. Greenfield and M. R. Wasielewsky, "Near-transform-limited visible and near-IR femtosecond pulses from optical parametric amplification using type-II β-barium borate," Opt. Lett. 20, 1394 (1995).
11. P. Di Trapani, A. Andreoni, G. P. Banfi, C. Solcia, R. Danielius, P. Foggi, M. Monguzzi, A. Piskarskas, and C. Sozzi, "Group-velocity matching in noncollinear parametric generation with fs pulses," Phys. Rev. A 51, 3164 (1995).
12. P. Di Trapani, G. P. Banfi, R. Danielius, P. Foggi, M. Monguzzi, A. Piskarskas, R. Righini, I. Sánta, and C. Sozzi, "Off-axis parametric generation in the femtosecond regime," in Proceedings of UPS'93, Lith. J. Phys. 33, 324 (1993).
13. P. Di Trapani, A. Andreoni, P. Foggi, C. Solcia, R. Danielius, and A. Piskarskas, "Efficient conversion of femtosecond blue pulses by traveling-wave parametric generation in non-collinear phase matching," Opt. Commun. 119, 327 (1995).
14. P. Di Trapani, A. Andreoni, C. Solcia, P. Foggi, R. Danielius, A. Dubietis, and A. Piskarskas, "Matching of group velocities in three-wave parametric interaction with femtosecond pulses and application to traveling-wave generators," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 2237 (1995).
15. V. V. Yakovlev, B. Kohler, and K. R. Wilson, "Broadly tunable 30-fs pulses produced by optical parametric amplification," Opt. Lett. 19, 2000 (1994).
16. R. Danielius, A. Piskarskas, P. Di Trapani, A. Andreoni, C. Solcia, and P. Foggi, "Visible pulses of 100 fs and 100 μJ from an upconverted parametric generator," Appl. Opt. 35, 5336 (1996).