Recommended Citation
Published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Volume 13, Issue 9, September 1, 1996, pages 2075-2083.
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NOTE: At the time of publication, the author D.E. Gragson was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
Abstract
We developed a high-power tunable picosecond IR laser system suitable for nonlinear spectroscopic investigations. We employ a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier that produces 1.9-ps, 17-cm−1, 800-nm pulses at 1 kHz as a pump source. White-light generation in ethylene glycol and optical parametric amplification in potassium titanyl phosphate are used to produce the IR pulses. The tuning range extends from 2.4 to 3.8 μm in the idler and 1.0 to 1.2 μm in the signal. A total efficiency (signal plus idler) as high as 20% was achieved. The spatial, spectral, and temporal characteristics of the IR beam are presented along with vibrational sum-frequency spectra from a glass/octadecyltrichlorosilane/air interface.
Disciplines
Biochemistry | Chemistry
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