Sub-two-cycle light pulses at 16 μm from an optical parametric amplifier
- 31 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 33 (7) , 741-743
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.33.000741
Abstract
We generate ultrabroadband pulses, spanning the wavelength range, from an pumped optical parametric amplifier (OPA) working at degeneracy. We compress the microjoule-level energy pulses to nearly transform-limited duration by an adaptive system employing a deformable mirror. To our knowledge, these are the shortest light pulses generated at .
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