Abstract
Quasi single-cycle femtosecond pulses were generated in the mid-infrared spectral domain by performing the optical rectification of 10-fs visible pulses. This represents a tenfold increase in the frequencies achieved through optical rectification, previously generated in the far-infrared domain only. The experimental setup consists of a 100 MHz Ti:Sapphire oscillator which produces the 10-fs pulses that are sent through a modified Michelson interferometer. This allows a sequence of two pulses of a nonlinear material such as GaAs or GaSe to be focused. Due to the second-order nonlinear response of these materials, the incident pulses are optically rectified.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 423-424 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS |
| Volume | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 1996 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1996 9th Annual Meeting of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS'96. Part 2 (of 2) - Boston, MA, USA Duration: 18 Nov 1996 → 21 Nov 1996 |