Efficient time-to-space conversion of femtosecond optical pulses
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 15 (3), 1242-1245
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.15.001242
Abstract
We report femtosecond time-to-space transformation by means of a potassium niobate nonlinear optical crystal inside a femtosecond pulse shaper. We achieve an upconversion efficiency higher than 50%, a more than 500-fold increase as compared with previous results. We also present theoretical guidelines for estimating the efficiency of such time-to-space converters.Keywords
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