Abstract
We demonstrate high resolution and increased efficiency background-free time-to-space conversion using spectrally resolved nondegenerate 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 [D. Shayovitz and D. M. Marom, Opt. Lett. 36, 1957 (2011)] 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 27388-27395 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Optics Express |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 24 |
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| State | Published - 19 Nov 2012 |