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Tunable sub-100 femtosecond dye-laser pulses generated with a nanosecond pulsed pumping

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Subpicosecond pulses at a fixed wavelength produced with a low-Q cavity dye laser pumped by a single, nanosecond laser (Q-switched Nd:YAG) are converted into tunable high-power sub-100 femtosecond pulses by generation, spectral selection, amplification and compression of a supercontinuum. The tunable, chirped, high-energy pulses obtained are compressed with a prism pair. Energies up to 50 μJ in sub-100 fs pulses were obtained in the 540 to 650 nm range using 40 mJ of the Nd: YAG-laser pumping pulses at 532 nm. The whole sub-100 fs system including the low-Q dye laser uses only one Nd:YAG laser as a pump source.

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  1. Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire du CNRS, Bat. 213, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405, Orsay, France

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Hung, N.D., Meyer, Y.H. Tunable sub-100 femtosecond dye-laser pulses generated with a nanosecond pulsed pumping. Appl. Phys. B 55, 409–412 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00325178

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