Mid-infrared difference-frequency generation of ultrashort pulses tunable between 3.2 and 4.8 microm from a compact fiber source.
Opt Lett
; 32(9): 1138-40, 2007 May 01.
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| ID: mdl-17410261
ABSTRACT
We report single-pass difference-frequency generation of mid-infrared femtosecond pulses tunable in the 3.2-4.8 microm range from a two-branch mode-locked erbium-doped fiber source. Average power levels of up to 1.1 mW at a repetition rate of 82 MHz are obtained in the mid infrared. This is achieved via nonlinear mixing of 170 mW, 65 fs pump pulses at a fixed wavelength of 1.58 microm, with 11.5 mW, 40 fs pulses tunable in the near-infrared range between 1.05 and 1.18 microm. These values indicate that the tunable near-infrared input component is downconverted with a quantum efficiency that exceeds 30%.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Language:
En
Journal:
Opt Lett
Year:
2007
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Suiza