Multiphoton effects enhanced due to ultrafast photon-number fluctuations

KY Spasibko, DA Kopylov, VL Krutyanskiy… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
The rate of an n-photon effect generally scales as the n th order autocorrelation function of
the incident light, which is high for light with strong photon-number fluctuations …

Femtosecond nonlinear frequency conversion based on BiB3O6

V Petrov, M Ghotbi, O Kokabee… - Laser & Photonics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We review the physical properties, linear and nonlinear optical characteristics, and phase‐
matching configurations of BiB3O6 (BIBO), the first low‐symmetry (monoclinic) inorganic …

Ultra-broadband mid-wave-IR upconversion detection

A Barh, C Pedersen, P Tidemand-Lichtenberg - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we demonstrate efficient room temperature detection of ultra-broadband mid-
wave-infrared (MWIR) light with an almost flat response over more than 1200 nm, exploiting …

Optical-parametric-generation process driven by femtosecond pulses: Timing and carrier-envelope phase properties

C Manzoni, G Cirmi, D Brida, S De Silvestri… - Physical Review A …, 2009 - APS
We investigate, both numerically and experimentally, the optical parametric generation
(OPG) process in second-order nonlinear crystals driven by femtosecond pulses. We model …

[HTML][HTML] Simple method for mid-infrared optical frequency comb generation with dynamic offset frequency tuning

M Roiz, K Kumar, J Karhu, M Vainio - Apl Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We present a simple method for fully stabilized mid-infrared optical frequency comb
generation based on single-pass femtosecond optical parametric generation that is seeded …

Ultrabroadband optical phenomena in quadratic nonlinear media

M Conforti, F Baronio, C De Angelis - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a comprehensive framework to study the nonlinear evolution of ultrabroadband
optical pulses in quadratic nonlinear media. We employ a nonlinear envelope equation that …

Ultra-broadband optical parametric generation in periodically poled stoichiometric LiTaO3

M Levenius, V Pasiskevicius, F Laurell, K Gallo - Optics Express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report on broadband gain in an optical parametric generator based on periodically poled
1 mol% magnesium-doped stoichiometric LiTaO_3 (PPMg: SLT). More than an octave …

Generation of ultra-broadband pulses in the near-IR by non-collinear optical parametric amplification in potassium titanyl phosphate

O Isaienko, E Borguet - Optics Express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
Non-collinear optical parametric amplification in potassium-titanyl phosphate (KTP) pumped
with 800 nm pulses is reported. Broadband phase matching is achieved with non-collinear …

Tunable narrow-linewidth high-peak-power sub-nanosecond optical parametric generator by injection seeding

K Zhong, H Qiao, F Li, X Zhang, Y Zheng, S Wang… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We present an efficient tunable optical parametric generator (OPG) with its linewidth close to
the Fourier transform limit by injection seeding a tunable diode laser. Benefitting from high …

Ultrabroadband continuum amplification in the near infrared using BiB3O6 nonlinear crystals pumped at 800 nm

I Nikolov, A Gaydardzhiev, I Buchvarov, P Tzankov… - Optics letters, 2007 - opg.optica.org
Ultrabroadband parametric amplification of a white-light continuum in the near IR (~ 100
THz, 1.2-2.4 μm) is demonstrated in BiB_3O_6 pumped by 45 fs long pulses at 800 nm at a …