Fully efficient adiabatic frequency conversion of broadband Ti:sapphire oscillator pulses

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Moses, Jeffrey; Suchowski, Haim; Kaertner, Franz X.
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Abstract
By adiabatic difference-frequency generation in an aperiodically poled nonlinear crystal—a nonlinear optical analog of rapid adiabatic passage in a two-level atomic system—we demonstrate the conversion of a 110 nm band from an octave-spanning Ti:sapphire oscillator to the infrared, spanning 1550 to 2450 nm, with near-100% internal conversion efficiency. The experiment proves the principle of complete Landau-Zener adiabatic transfer in nonlinear optical wave mixing. Our implementation is a practical approach to the seeding of high-energy ultrabroadband optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers.
Date issued
2012-05
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86965
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Journal
Optics Letters
Publisher
Optical Society of America
Citation
Moses, Jeffrey, Haim Suchowski, and Franz X. Kärtner. “Fully Efficient Adiabatic Frequency Conversion of Broadband Ti:sapphire Oscillator Pulses.” Optics Letters 37, no. 9 (May 1, 2012): 1589. © 2012 Optical Society of America.
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0146-9592
1539-4794
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