Low-chirp Ti:sapphire amplification of OPO pulses near the Fourier transform limit

Baldwin, Kenneth; Kono, Mitsuhiko; He, Yabai; White, Richard T.; Orr, Brian J.

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Low-chirp Ti:sapphire amplification of OPO pulses near the Fourier transform limit

Date

2009

Authors

Baldwin, Kenneth

Kono, Mitsuhiko

He, Yabai

White, Richard T.

Orr, Brian J.

Abstract

Output pulses from a Ti:sapphire-amplified OPO are shown to be nearly Fourier-transform-limited with little additional chirp. The power is sufficient to generate narrowband vacuum-ultraviolet radiation (using nonlinear-optical methods) for precision spectroscopy.