title: Mid-infrared optical combs from a compact amplified Er-doped fiber oscillator.
abstract: By means of a difference-frequency-generation (DFG) process driven by a two-branch Er-doped fiber laser at a stabilized 100 MHz repetition rate, broadly tunable pulses from 5 to 12 microm are generated with an unprecedented power level of around 100 microW. The mid-IR pulse train is expected to exhibit an harmonic comb structure as a result of the cancellation of the carrier-envelope offset frequency resulting from the DFG process.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Lecco, Italy. alessio.gambetta@polimi.it
authors.forename: Alessio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gambetta
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramponi
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marangoni