PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION OF ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES

1 December 1967

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 11 (11) , 333-335
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1755001

Abstract

The parametric amplification of a short optical pulse, such as is produced by a mode‐locked laser, is treated. The pump signal is also a short optical pulse whose center frequency is twice that of the signal pulse. It is shown that the signal pulse undergoes considerable sharpening. The sharpening is ultimately limited by the mismatch in the group velocities of the pump and signal pulses.

Keywords

GROUP VELOCITY

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Nonlinear Optics
Applied Optics, 1966