title: Broadly tunable, sub-30 fs near-infrared pulses from an optical parametric amplifier based on BiB3O6.
abstract: We report the generation of tunable femtosecond pulses in the near-IR using a two-stage, white-light seeded, collinear, femtosecond optical parametric amplifier (OPA). The OPA, based on BiB(3)O(6) crystal in both stages and pumped at 800 nm by a 1 kHz Ti:sapphire laser amplifier, provides sub-30 fs signal pulses across the whole tuning range of 1.15-1.6 microm with minimum duration of 22 fs and maximum signal energy of 80 microJ.
authors.affiliation: Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 2A Max-Born-Strasse D-12489 Berlin, Germany. mghotbi@mbi-berlin.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ghotbi
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Petrov
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Noack