Generation of femtosecond pulses from order-of-magnitude pulse compression in a synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled lithium niobate
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 24 (1) , 28-30
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.24.000028
Abstract
We demonstrate the generation of compressed, transform-limited 250-fs pulses, tunable in the near infrared, by means of synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillation in periodically poled lithium niobate. The almost 20-fold compression from the 4-ps pulse duration of the cw mode-locked Nd:YLF pump results in signal peak powers well in excess of the pump power.Keywords
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