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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 38, Issue 20, Pages 4216-4219Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.004216
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- Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBP) via the NEXUS project
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We present experimental observations and corresponding numerical simulations illustrating the difference-frequency generation of mid-infrared radiation using few-cycle near-infrared-to-visible pulses, which yields conversion efficiencies above 12% in beta-barium borate crystal. Type I and type II phase-matching are shown to yield qualitatively different intensity-scaling behavior, with the former showing higher overall efficiency, especially with the addition of a zero-order wave plate for modifying the polarization state of the pulse, and the latter having a better stability of the spectrum versus input intensity. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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