title: Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering light generation in BBO crystal by using two crossing femtosecond laser pulses.
abstract: As broad as 12000 cm(-1) coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) light from ultraviolet to infrared was generated in a BBO crystal by using two crossing femtosecond laser pulses with 30% conversion efficiency. More than fifteenth-order anti-Stokes and second-order Stokes Raman sidebands were observed with nice Gaussian spatial mode. The effect of the crossing angle between two input beams on the spectrum and emitting angle of the Raman sidebands was studied in detail. Calculation shows that the phase-matching condition determines the frequencies and angles of the sidebands.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry and Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Chofugaoka 1-5-1, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585 Japan.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Takayoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi