Control of the effects of crystal dispersion at different orders in the mixing of three phase-matched waves on a 5- to 100-fs time scale

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https://doi.org/10.26636/jtit.2000.1-2.19

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three-wave mixing, ultra-broadband phasematching, β-barium borate, group-velocity matching, groupvelocity dispersion

Abstract

A number of manners to obtain first-order achromatic phase matching of both type I and type II are presented and the most advantageous ones are identified to generate high-spectral quality 100-fs pulses by either parametric generation or frequency up-conversion. In the case of frequency-doubling high-energy 5-fs Ti:sapphire pulses, a non-collinear phase-matching I geometry in a β-barium borate crystal cut at 44 deg is devised that should allow high conversion efficiency, virtually without pulse lengthening and intra-pulse frequency chirp due to group-velocity dispersion.

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2000-06-30

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A. Andreoni, M. Bondani, and M. A. Potenza, “Control of the effects of crystal dispersion at different orders in the mixing of three phase-matched waves on a 5- to 100-fs time scale”, JTIT, vol. 1, no. 1-2, pp. 16–19, Jun. 2000, doi: 10.26636/jtit.2000.1-2.19.