Tunable 30 fs light pulses at 1 W power level from a Yb-pumped optical parametric oscillator

Nicola Coluccelli; Daniele Viola; Vikas Kumar; Antonio Perri; Marco Marangoni; Giulio Cerullo; Dario Polli

doi:10.1364/ol.42.004545

Tunable 30 fs light pulses at 1 W power level from a Yb-pumped optical parametric oscillator

Nicola Coluccelli, Daniele Viola, Vikas Kumar, Antonio Perri, Marco Marangoni, Giulio Cerullo, Dario Polli

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Abstract

We report on a Yb-pumped optical parametric oscillator (OPO) that delivers 30 fs pulses with spectral coverage from 680 to 910 nm and an average output power of up to 1.1 W. The resulting peak power is ∼0.5 MW, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the highest ever demonstrated in a femtosecond OPO. The intensity noise remains at a level of 0.2% rms, and rapid wavelength tuning is obtained by simply scanning the resonator length. The performances of the OPO are promising for a variety of applications in nonlinear microscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4545
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	42
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.42.004545
State	Published - Oct 31 2017
Externally published	Yes

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-04-06
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR-2016-CRG5-3017-01
Acknowledgements: H2020 European Research Council (ERC) (ERC-2014-CoG 648615); Horizon2020 GRAPHENE Flagship (696656); King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (OSR-2016-CRG5-3017-01).
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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