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Optimized achromatic phase-matching system and method

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OSTI ID:871052
 [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. Livermore, CA
  2. Pleasanton, CA
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An optical system for efficiently directing a large bandwidth light (e.g., a femtosecond laser pulse) onto a nonlinear optical medium includes a plurality of optical elements for directing an input light pulse onto a nonlinear optical medium arranged such that the angle .theta..sub.in which the light pulse directed onto the nonlinear optical medium is substantially independent of a position x of the light beam entering the optical system. The optical system is also constructed such that the group velocity dispersion of light pulses passing through the system can be tuned to a desired value including negative group velocity dispersion.

Research Organization:
SANDIA CORP
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Patent Number(s):
US 5648866
OSTI ID:
871052
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (11)

Negative dispersion using pairs of prisms journal January 1984
Broadband frequency doubler for femtosecond pulses journal January 1990
Achromatic N-Prism Beam Expanders: Optimal Configurations II conference November 1985
Wide-bandwidth frequency doubling with high conversion efficiency journal January 1992
High-efficiency generation of ultrashort second-harmonic pulses based on the Čerenkov geometry journal January 1994
Ultrashort-pulse second-harmonic generation in quasi-phase-matched dispersive media journal January 1994
Frequency conversion of broad-bandwidth laser light journal March 1990
Ray-pulse matrices: a rational treatment for dispersive optical systems journal June 1990
Achromatic phase matching for second harmonic generation of femtosecond pulses journal January 1989
Negative group-velocity dispersion using refraction journal January 1984
Achromatic N-prism beam expanders: optimal configurations journal January 1985

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