TY - JOUR
T1 - Few-cycle pulse generation from noncollinear optical parametric amplifier with static dispersion compensation
AU - Adachi, Shunsuke
AU - Watanabe, Yuya
AU - Sudo, Yuki
AU - Suzuki, Toshinori
N1 - Funding Information:
JSPS KAKENHI (JP16K17528); The Amada Foundation ? Japan (AF-2014221).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - We present a novel design of a few-cycle noncollinear optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) pumped by the second harmonic of a Ti:sapphire laser. A quasi-transform-limited sub-6 fs pulse width was realized by static dispersion compensation with commercially available chirped mirrors. The performance of the NOPA was tested by performing transient absorption spectroscopy on sensory rhodopsin II, and we observe short-lived oscillatory components that are associated with the vibrational coherence from the isomerizing molecule in the excited electronic state.
AB - We present a novel design of a few-cycle noncollinear optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) pumped by the second harmonic of a Ti:sapphire laser. A quasi-transform-limited sub-6 fs pulse width was realized by static dispersion compensation with commercially available chirped mirrors. The performance of the NOPA was tested by performing transient absorption spectroscopy on sensory rhodopsin II, and we observe short-lived oscillatory components that are associated with the vibrational coherence from the isomerizing molecule in the excited electronic state.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.04.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017267332
VL - 683
SP - 7
EP - 11
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
SN - 0009-2614
ER -