Generation of compressed 600-720-nm tunable femtosecond pulses by transient frequency mixing in a beta-barium borate crystal.
We demonstrate the feasibility of the compression of tunable pulses by means of sum-frequency generation under special group-velocity mismatch conditions. beta-Barium borate crystal has been shown to support the upconversion process, resulting in 160-fs pulses tunable within 600-720 nm when mixing 1.3-ps 1055-nm pulses from a Nd:glass laser with 0.95-ps pulses tunable within 1400-2200 nm from a traveling-wave parametric generator. A similar compression of ~150-fs Ti:sapphire pulses predicted for the sum-frequency tuning range of 520-590 nm.
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Danielius
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Dubietis
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Piskarskas
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Valiulis
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Varanavicius