Watt-scale 50-MHz source of single-cycle waveform-stable pulses in the molecular fingerprint region.

Autor: Butler TP, Gerz D, Hofer C, Xu J, Gaida C, Heuermann T, Gebhardt M, Vamos L, Schweinberger W, Gessner JA, Siefke T, Heusinger M, Zeitner U, Apolonski A, Karpowicz N, Limpert J, Krausz F, Pupeza I
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics letters [Opt Lett] 2019 Apr 01; Vol. 44 (7), pp. 1730-1733.
DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.001730
Abstrakt: We report a coherent mid-infrared (MIR) source with a combination of broad spectral coverage (6-18 μm), high repetition rate (50 MHz), and high average power (0.5 W). The waveform-stable pulses emerge via intrapulse difference-frequency generation (IPDFG) in a GaSe crystal, driven by a 30-W-average-power train of 32-fs pulses spectrally centered at 2 μm, delivered by a fiber-laser system. Electro-optic sampling (EOS) of the waveform-stable MIR waveforms reveals their single-cycle nature, confirming the excellent phase matching both of IPDFG and of EOS with 2-μm pulses in GaSe.
Databáze: MEDLINE