Tunable femtosecond pulses in the ultraviolet, generated by upconversion of a traveling-wave dye laser
- 1 November 1992
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 9 (11) , 2028-2031
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.9.002028
Abstract
We report the generation of 200-fs pulses with 300-nJ energy; the pulses are tunable in the UV spectral range. Amplified pulses from a colliding-pulse mode-locked dye laser at 620 nm and the output of a femtosecond traveling-wave dye laser (TWDL) are mixed in a nonlinear crystal. Wavelength tuning is achieved by changing the phase-matching angle, which results in upconversion of different spectral components of the broadband output of the dye laser. Approximately 15% of the photons from the TWDL are converted into the UVKeywords
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