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High-power broadband laser source tunable from 3.0 υm to 4.4 υm based on a femtosecond Yb:fiber oscillator

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Author(s)

Tyler W. Neely, Todd Johnson, Scott A. Diddams

Abstract

We describe a tunable broadband mid-infrared laser source based on difference-frequency mixing of a 100 MHz femtosecond Yb:fiber laser oscillator and Raman-shifted soliton. The resulting light is tunable over 2.8-4.5 υm, with a FWHM bandwidth of 170 nm and maximum average output power up to 125 mW. The noise and coherence properties of this source are also investigated and described.
Citation
Optics Letters
Volume
36
Issue
20

Keywords

Infrared and far-infrared lasers, nonlinear optics, parametric processes, ultrafast nonlinear optics

Citation

Neely, T. , Johnson, T. and Diddams, S. (2011), High-power broadband laser source tunable from 3.0 υm to 4.4 υm based on a femtosecond Yb:fiber oscillator, Optics Letters (Accessed December 11, 2024)

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Created October 15, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017