title: Generation of high-energy sub-20 fs pulses tunable in the 250-310 nm region by frequency doubling of a high-power noncollinear optical parametric amplifier.
abstract: We report on the generation of powerful sub-20 fs deep UV pulses with 10 microJ level energy and broadly tunable in the 250-310 nm range. These pulses are produced by frequency doubling a high-power noncollinear optical parametric amplifier and compressed by a pair of MgF2 prisms to an almost transform-limited duration. Our results provide a power scaling by an order of magnitude with respect to previous works.
authors.affiliation: Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany. beutler@mbi-berlin.de
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beutler
authors.forename: Masood
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghotbi
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Noack
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brida
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Manzoni
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cerullo