Broadly tunable mid-infrared femtosecond pulses directly generated by an optical parametric amplifier

A Villa, AM Ross, R Gotti, M Lamperti… - OSA …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
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We introduce an optical parametric amplifier, pumped by an amplified femtosecond Yb:
KGW laser, which directly generates broadly tunable mid-infrared (MIR) pulses, covering the
whole vibrational spectrum from 3 to 10 µm. The avoidance of the traditional difference-
frequency generation stage to access the MIR range simplifies the setup while enabling high
conversion efficiencies. The two-stage design employs in the second stage either
periodically poled lithium niobate, optimized for the CH/OH stretching region (3-5 µm) or …
We introduce an optical parametric amplifier, pumped by an amplified femtosecond Yb:KGW laser, which directly generates broadly tunable mid-infrared (MIR) pulses, covering the whole vibrational spectrum from 3 to 10 µm. The avoidance of the traditional difference-frequency generation stage to access the MIR range simplifies the setup while enabling high conversion efficiencies. The two-stage design employs in the second stage either periodically poled lithium niobate, optimized for the CH/OH stretching region (3-5 µm) or LiGaS_2, which allows extending the tunability to the fingerprint region (up to 10 µm). We anticipate applications of this versatile source to ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy and infrared microscopy.
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