by
Anne-Lise Viotti(KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
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Europe/Berlin
13 (Building 222, Ground Floor)
13
Building 222, Ground Floor
Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg
Description
In the Laser Physics group of KTH, Stockholm, periodically poled ferroelectric crystals are used to build nonlinear optical devices. In particular, engineered Rb-doped KTiOPO4 (RKTP) was recently used for two main research applications. For instance, we investigated numerically and experimentally self-compressed fs supercontinuum pulses in the mid-IR through cascaded second-order nonlinearities in periodically poled RKTP.
Another line of research is dedicated to counter-propagating devices called mirrorless optical parametric oscillators (MOPOs), which can be realized in sub-µm periodically poled RKTP. I will describe how these devices work and give a few examples of what MOPOs can be used for.