Generation of 30 fs pulses tunable from 189 to 240 nm with an all-solid-state setup

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.29.002765

Generation of 30 fs pulses tunable from 189 to 240 nm with an all-solid-state setup

Christian Homann, Peter Lang, and Eberhard Riedle »View Author Affiliations

JOSA B, Vol. 29, Issue 10, pp. 2765-2769 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.29.002765

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Fully tunable deep UV pulses of 30 fs duration are generated in an all-solid-state scheme from 200 fs long pump pulses of a Ti:sapphire amplifier. The tunability comes from a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier with tailored spectral width. The output pulses are frequency-doubled in a 50 μm BBO crystal and subsequently mixed in a 32 μm BBO crystal with part of the Ti:sapphire output. The compression is solely performed in the visible. This makes the setup extremely simple and efficient. Less than 400 μJ pump energy suffice to obtain submicrojoule deep UV pulses. The strategy for the bandwidth and chirp management is explained in detail.

OCIS Codes
(190.2620) Nonlinear optics : Harmonic generation and mixing
(190.4410) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, parametric processes
(320.1590) Ultrafast optics : Chirping
(320.5520) Ultrafast optics : Pulse compression
(320.7110) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast nonlinear optics

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Ultrafast Optics

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Original Manuscript: June 26, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: August 3, 2012
Published: September 17, 2012

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Christian Homann, Peter Lang, and Eberhard Riedle, "Generation of 30 fs pulses tunable from 189 to 240 nm with an all-solid-state setup," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29, 2765-2769 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-29-10-2765

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J. Ringling, O. Kittelmann, F. Noack, G. Korn, and J. Squier, “Tunable femtosecond pulses in the near vacuum ultraviolet generated by frequency conversion of amplified Ti:sapphire laser pulses,” Opt. Lett. 18, 2035–2037 (1993). [CrossRef]
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C. Homann, M. Bradler, M. Förster, P. Hommelhoff, and E. Riedle, “Carrier-envelope phase stable sub-two-cycle pulses tunable around 1.8 μm at 100 kHz,” Opt. Lett. 37, 1673–1675(2012). [CrossRef]
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C. Zhou, T. Kanai, X. Wang, Y. Zhu, C. Chen, and S. Watanabe, “Generation of ultrashort 25 μJ pulses at 200 nm by dual broadband frequency doubling with a thin KBe2BO3F2 crystal,” Opt. Express 20, 13684–13691 (2012). [CrossRef]

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[1] A. Stolow and J. G. Underwood, “Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of nonadiabatic dynamics in polyatomic molecules,” Adv. Chem. Phys. 139, 497–584 (2008). [CrossRef]

[2] C. G. Elles, A. E. Jailaubekov, R. A. Crowell, and S. E. Bradforth, “Excitation-energy dependence of the mechanism for two-photon ionization of liquid H2O and D2O from 8.3 to 12.4 eV,” J. Chem. Phys. 125, 044515 (2006). [CrossRef]

[3] A. Nebel and R. Beigang, “External frequency conversion of cw mode-locked Ti:Al2O3 laser radiation,” Opt. Lett. 16, 1729–1731 (1991). [CrossRef]

[4] J. Ringling, O. Kittelmann, F. Noack, G. Korn, and J. Squier, “Tunable femtosecond pulses in the near vacuum ultraviolet generated by frequency conversion of amplified Ti:sapphire laser pulses,” Opt. Lett. 18, 2035–2037 (1993). [CrossRef]

[5] F. Seifert, J. Ringling, F. Noack, V. Petrov, and O. Kittelmann, “Generation of tunable femtosecond pulses to as low as 172.7 nm by sum-frequency mixing in lithium triborate,” Opt. Lett. 19, 1538–1540 (1994). [CrossRef]

[6] T. Fuji, T. Horio, and T. Suzuki, “Generation of 12 fs deep-ultraviolet pulses by four-wave mixing through filamentation in neon gas,” Opt. Lett. 32, 2481–2483 (2007). [CrossRef]

[7] M. Beutler, M. Ghotbi, and F. Noack, “Generation of intense sub-20 fs vacuum ultraviolet pulses compressed by material dispersion,” Opt. Lett. 36, 3726–3728 (2011). [CrossRef]

[8] C. G. Durfee, A. Rundquist, S. Backus, Z. Chang, C. Herne, H. C. Kapteyn, and M. M. Murnane, “Guided-wave phase-matching of ultrashort-pulse light,” J. Nonlinear Opt. Phys. Mater. 8, 211–234 (1999). [CrossRef]

[9] A. E. Jailaubekov and S. E. Bradforth, “Tunable 30-femtosecond pulses across the deep ultraviolet,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 021107 (2005). [CrossRef]

[10] M. Mero and J. Zheng, “Femtosecond optical parametric converter in the 168–182 nm range,” Appl. Phys. B 106, 37–43 (2012). [CrossRef]

[11] T. Wilhelm, J. Piel, and E. Riedle, “Sub-20 fs pulses tunable across the visible from a blue-pumped single-pass noncollinear parametric converter,” Opt. Lett. 22, 1494–1496 (1997). [CrossRef]

[12] E. Riedle, M. Beutter, S. Lochbrunner, J. Piel, S. Schenkl, S. Spörlein, and W. Zinth, “Generation of 10 to 50 fs pulses tunable through all of the visible and the NIR,” Appl. Phys. B 71, 457–465 (2000). [CrossRef]

[13] “SNLO nonlinear optics code,” available from A. V. Smith, AS-Photonics, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[14] P. Baum, S. Lochbrunner, and E. Riedle, “Generation of tunable 7 fs ultraviolet pulses: achromatic phase matching and chirp management,” Appl. Phys. B 79, 1027–1032 (2004). [CrossRef]

[15] C. Schriever, S. Lochbrunner, M. Optiz, and E. Riedle, “19 fs shaped ultraviolet pulses,” Opt. Lett. 31, 543–545 (2006). [CrossRef]

[16] P. Baum, M. Breuer, and E. Riedle, “Brewster-angled chirped mirrors for broadband pulse compression without dispersion oscillations,” Opt. Lett. 31, 2220–2222 (2006). [CrossRef]

[17] C. Homann, M. Bradler, M. Förster, P. Hommelhoff, and E. Riedle, “Carrier-envelope phase stable sub-two-cycle pulses tunable around 1.8 μm at 100 kHz,” Opt. Lett. 37, 1673–1675(2012). [CrossRef]

[18] I. Z. Kozma, P. Baum, U. Schmidhammer, S. Lochbrunner, and E. Riedle, “Compact autocorrelator for the online measurement of tunable 10 femtosecond pulses,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 2323–2327 (2004). [CrossRef]

[19] C. Homann, N. Krebs, and E. Riedle, “Convenient pulse length measurement of sub-20 fs pulses down to the deep UV via two-photon absorption in bulk material,” Appl. Phys. B 104, 783–791 (2011). [CrossRef]

[20] I. Z. Kozma, P. Baum, S. Lochbrunner, and E. Riedle, “Widely tunable sub-30 fs ultraviolet pulses by chirped sum frequency mixing,” Opt. Express 11, 3110–3115 (2003). [CrossRef]

[21] P. Tzankov, J. Zheng, M. Mero, D. Polli, C. Manzoni, and G. Cerullo, “300 μJ noncollinear optical parametric amplifier in the visible at 1 kHz repetition rate,” Opt. Lett. 31, 3629–3631 (2006). [CrossRef]

[22] B. Mahieu, S. Coraggia, C. Callegari, M. Coreno, G. De Ninno, M. Devetta, F. Frassetto, D. Garzella, M. Negro, C. Spezzani, C. Vozzi, S. Stagira, and L. Poletto, “Full tunability of laser femtosecond high-order harmonics in the ultraviolet spectral range,” Appl. Phys. B108, 43–49 (2012). [CrossRef]

[23] J. Faure, J. Mauchain, E. Papalazarou, W. Yan, J. Pinon, M. Marsi, and L. Perfetti, “Full characterization and optimization of a femtosecond ultraviolet laser source for time and angle-resolved photoemission on solid surfaces,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83, 043109 (2012). [CrossRef]

[24] H. Shen, S. Adachi, T. Horio, and T. Suzuki, “Two-color deep-ultraviolet 40 fs pulses based on parametric amplification at 100 kHz,” Opt. Express 19, 22637–22642 (2011). [CrossRef]

[25] C. Zhou, T. Kanai, X. Wang, Y. Zhu, C. Chen, and S. Watanabe, “Generation of ultrashort 25 μJ pulses at 200 nm by dual broadband frequency doubling with a thin KBe2BO3F2 crystal,” Opt. Express 20, 13684–13691 (2012). [CrossRef]

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