Spectral phase transfer to ultrashort UV pulses through four-wave mixing P. Zuo1,2 , T. Fuji1,2,3,∗ , and T. Suzuki1,2,4 1 Chemical
Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Hirosawa 2–1, Wako, Saitama, 351–0198, Japan 2 Japan
Science and Technology Agency, CREST, Sanbancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102–0075, Japan 3 Laser
Research Center for Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, 38 Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444–8585, Japan
4 Department
of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606–8502, Japan
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Abstract: Transfer of spectral phase from near infrared ultrashort pulses to deep ultraviolet (UV) sub-30-fs pulses through four-wave mixing process is demonstrated. Micro joule UV pulses at 237 nm were generated by nonlinear mixing of second harmonic pulses of Ti:sapphire laser output and near infrared pulses from a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier. Chirp of the near infrared pulse was transfered to the UV pulse with the opposite sign. A positively chirped near infrared pulse was used for generating a negatively chirped UV pulse, which was compressed down to 25 fs by a magnesium fluoride window. © 2010 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing (320.5540) Pulse shaping (190.4970) Parametric oscillators and amplifiers.
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Introduction
Ultrashort laser pulses are among the most effective tools for fundamental studies in physics and chemistry. Ultraviolet (UV,
