Clean sub-8-fs pulses at 400 nm generated by a hollow fiber compressor for ultraviolet ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy

Opt Express. 2010 Sep 27;18(20):20645-50. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.020645.

Abstract

Clean 7.5 fs pulses at 400 nm with less than 3% energy in tiny satellite pulses were obtained by spectral broadening in a hollow fiber and dispersive compensating using a prism pair together with a deformable mirror system. As an example, this stable and clean pulse was used to study the ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy of photoactive yellow protein. Moreover, the self-diffraction signal shows a smoothed and broadened laser spectrum and is expected to have a further clean laser pulse, which makes it more useful in the ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy in the future.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aluminum / chemistry
  • Bacterial Proteins / chemistry
  • Computer-Aided Design / instrumentation
  • Equipment Design / instrumentation
  • Fourier Analysis
  • Lasers
  • Light
  • Optics and Photonics*
  • Photoreceptors, Microbial / chemistry
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet / instrumentation*
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet / methods
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Photoreceptors, Microbial
  • photoactive yellow protein, Bacteria
  • Aluminum