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A Potassium Niobate OPA Pumped by an Amplified Ti:Sapphire Laser

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Ultrafast Phenomena X

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We have generated femtosecond pulses from 2.8 to 5.0 µm with as much as 12 µJ of energy at a repetition rate of 1 kHz using a potassium niobate optical parametric amplifier.

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  1. Spectra-Physics Lasers, Inc., 1330 Terra Bella Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA

    J. D. Kafka & M. L. Watts

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  1. J. D. Kafka
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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0431, USA

    Paul F. Barbara

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    James G. Fujimoto

  3. Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technology, Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ, 07733-3030, USA

    Wayne H. Knox Ph. D.

  4. Institut für Medizinische Optik, Universität München, Barbarastrasse 16, D-80797, München, Germany

    Wolfgang Zinth

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Kafka, J.D., Watts, M.L. (1996). A Potassium Niobate OPA Pumped by an Amplified Ti:Sapphire Laser. In: Barbara, P.F., Fujimoto, J.G., Knox, W.H., Zinth, W. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena X. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80314-7_16

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