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Titel
Wavelength tuning of femtosecond pulses generated in nonlinear crystals by using diffractive lenses
Autor(es)
Schlagwort
Nonlinear optics
Femtosecond lasers
Diffractive lens
Clasificación UNESCO
2209.10 Láseres
2209.13 Óptica no lineal
Fecha de publicación
2010-10-28
Verlag
Optical Society of America
Citación
Optics Letters 35 (21), 3694-3696
Resumen
We demonstrate that diffractive lenses (DLs) can be used as a simple method to tune the central wavelength of
femtosecond pulses generated from second-order nonlinear optical processes in birefringent crystals. The wavelength
tunability is achieved by changing the relative distance between the nonlinear crystal and the DL, which
acts in a focusing configuration. Besides the many practical applications of the so-generated pulses, the proposed
method might be extended to other wavelength ranges by demonstrated similar effects on other nonlinear processes,
such as high-order harmonic generation.
URI
ISSN
0146-9592
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