title: Generation of femtosecond pulses from order-of-magnitude pulse compression in a synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled lithium niobate.
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.
authors: Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Lefort
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authors: K
authors: Puech
authors: S D
authors: SD
authors: Butterworth
authors: Y P
authors: YP
authors: Svirko
authors: D C
authors: DC
authors: Hanna