Abstract
We report single-pass difference-frequency generation of mid-infrared femtosecond pulses tunable in the range from a two-branch mode-locked erbium-doped fiber source. Average power levels of up to at a repetition rate of are obtained in the mid infrared. This is achieved via nonlinear mixing of , pump pulses at a fixed wavelength of , with , pulses tunable in the near-infrared range between and . These values indicate that the tunable near-infrared input component is downconverted with a quantum efficiency that exceeds 30%.
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