Abstract
In recent years, the search for easily and widely tunable coherent sources has generated great interest in the development of optical parametric amplifiers (OPA). We are presently developing a subpicosecond degenerate OPA based on the nonlinear crystal BBO. We show how this OPA can amplify small signals with a gain of up to 104 during the time that the pump and signal overlap in the crystal.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
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