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Widely-tunable mid-IR frequency comb source based on difference frequency generation

Optics 2012-03-13 v1

Abstract

We report on a mid-infrared frequency comb source of unprecedented tunability covering the entire 3-10 {\mu}m molecular fingerprint region. The system is based on difference frequency generation in a GaSe crystal pumped by a 151 MHz Yb:fiber frequency comb. The process was seeded with Raman shifted solitons generated in a highly nonlinear suspended-core fiber with the same source. Average powers up to 1.5 mW were achieved at 4.7 {\mu}m wavelength.

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@article{arxiv.1203.2441,
  title  = {Widely-tunable mid-IR frequency comb source based on difference frequency generation},
  author = {Axel Ruehl and Alessio Gambetta and Ingmar Hartl and Martin E. Fermann and Kjeld S. E. Eikema and Marco Marangoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.2441},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

3 pages, 3 figures

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