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IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel

High resolution time-to-space imaging of ultra-short pulses at 1.55μm by non-degenerate SFG in PPLN crystal

Dror Shayovitz, Dan M. Marom, Harald Herrmann, W. Sohler, Raimund Ricken, Christine Silberhorn

Published Nov 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate high resolution and increased efficiency background-free time-to-space conversion using spectrally resolved non-degenerate and collinear SFG in a bulk PPLN crystal. A serial-to-parallel resolution factor of 95 and a time window of 42 ps were achieved. A 60-fold increase in conversion efficiency slope compared with our previous work using a BBO crystal [5] was recorded. Finally the measured 40 GHz narrow linewidth of the output SFG signal implies the possibility to extract phase information by employing coherent detection techniques.

DOI
10.1109/eeei.2012.6376971

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