Two-color pump-probe system broadly tunable over the visible and the near infrared with sub-30fs temporal resolution

C Manzoni, D Polli, G Cerullo - Review of scientific instruments, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Time-resolved optical spectroscopy is a powerful technique for the investigation of electronic
and vibrational dynamics in a variety of systems and provides unique information on …

Compact autocorrelator for the online measurement of tunable 10 femtosecond pulses

IZ Kozma, P Baum, U Schmidhammer… - Review of Scientific …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Noncollinearly phase matched optical parametric amplifiers NOPAs pumped by the blue
light of a frequency doubled Ti: sapphire regenerative amplifier have become a practical …

Third-generation femtosecond technology

H Fattahi, HG Barros, M Gorjan, T Nubbemeyer… - Optica, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond pulse generation was pioneered four decades ago using mode-locked dye
lasers, which dominated the field for the following 20 years. Dye lasers were then replaced …

Broadly tunable ultrafast pump-probe system operating at multi-kHz repetition rate

A Grupp, A Budweg, MP Fischer, J Allerbeck… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Femtosecond systems based on ytterbium as active medium are ideal for driving ultrafast
optical parametric amplifiers in a broad frequency range. The excellent stability of the source …

Generation of 8.5-fs pulses at 1.3 µm for ultrabroadband pump-probe spectroscopy

D Brida, S Bonora, C Manzoni, M Marangoni… - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report on a near-infrared non-collinear optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) based on
periodically poled stoichiometric lithium tantalate. The NOPA generates μJ-energy pulses …

High-time-resolution pump-probe system with broadband detection for the study of time-domain vibrational dynamics

D Polli, L Lüer, G Cerullo - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
We present an ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy system in the visible combining
high-sensitivity broadband detection with extreme temporal resolution. The instrument is …

Time-resolved methods in biophysics. 4. Broadband pump—probe spectroscopy system with sub-20 fs temporal resolution for the study of energy transfer processes …

G Cerullo, C Manzoni, L Lüer, D Polli - Photochemical & Photobiological …, 2007 - Springer
In this paper we discuss how to push the temporal resolution limits of transient absorption
spectroscopy in order to detect very fast processes (energy relaxation, energy or charge …

Widely tunable femtosecond optical parametric amplifier at 250 kHz with a Ti: sapphire regenerative amplifier

MK Reed, MK Steiner-Shepard, DK Negus - Optics letters, 1994 - opg.optica.org
A Ti: sapphire mode-locked regenerative amplifier system pumped with a single argon-ion
laser produces 4-μJ, 170-fs pulse of 800-nm wavelength at a 250-kHz repetition rate. Part of …

Generation of 11 fs pulses tunable across the visible by optical parametric amplification

G Cerullo, M Nisoli, S De Silvestri - Applied physics letters, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
Many ultrafast spectroscopy applications require tunable ultrashort light pulses in the visible
with energy levels in the J range; in particular, several advanced experiments, such as …

Octave wide tunable UV-pumped NOPA: pulses down to 20 fs at 0.5 MHz repetition rate

C Homann, C Schriever, P Baum, E Riedle - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
Femtosecond laser pulses, which are tunable from 440 to 990 nm, are generated at MHz
repetition rates by noncollinear parametric amplification (NOPA). The pulses have durations …