Development of a two-color picosecond optical parametric oscillator, pumped by a Nd:YAG laser mode locked using a nonlinear mirror, for doubly-resonant sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Alaa Addin Mani; Laurent Dreesen; Christophe Humbert; Philippe Hollander; Yves Caudano; Paul Thiry; André Peremans

Development of a two-color picosecond optical parametric oscillator, pumped by a Nd:YAG laser mode locked using a nonlinear mirror, for doubly-resonant sum frequency generation spectroscopy

Alaa Addin Mani, Laurent Dreesen, Christophe Humbert, Philippe Hollander, Yves Caudano, Paul Thiry, André Peremans

Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences

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We set up a doubly-resonant sum frequency generation (DR-SFG) spectrometer based on the use of an all-solid-state flash-lamp-pumped Nd:YAG laser that synchronously pumps two parametric oscillators. Pulses as short as 12 ps FWHM are generated by mode locking a Nd:YAG oscillator using a frequency doubling nonlinear mirror combined with a two-photon absorber. The available pump power is shared between a LiNbO3/AgGaS2 optical parametric oscillator (OPO), tunable from 3800 to 1100 cm-1 and a BBO OPO tunable from 410 to 2600 nm. Spectral resolution and pulse are 2 and 3 cm-1 in the infrared and visible spectral ranges, respectively. First DR-SFG spectra of self-assembled monolayers on Au are presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	261-267
Number of pages	7
Journal	Surface Science
Volume	502
Publication status	Published - 2002

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Mani, A. A., Dreesen, L., Humbert, C., Hollander, P., Caudano, Y., Thiry, P., & Peremans, A. (2002). Development of a two-color picosecond optical parametric oscillator, pumped by a Nd:YAG laser mode locked using a nonlinear mirror, for doubly-resonant sum frequency generation spectroscopy. Surface Science, 502, 261-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0039-6028(01)01954-9

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Development of a two-color picosecond optical parametric oscillator, pumped by a Nd:YAG laser mode locked using a nonlinear mirror, for doubly-resonant sum frequency generation spectroscopy

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