Applications
Nonlinear Optics
Nonlinear optics is a branch of optics that deals with various kinds of optical nonlinearities with the goal of identifying new and efficient nonlinear materials. The materials of interest include laser-active media, semiconductors, photonic crystals, and others, which may have the potential to host extreme light-matter interactions induced by high-intensity or high-repetition-rate ultrashort light pulses in the single and multiple filamentation regimes.
Nonlinear optics is essential in the development of coherent broad-bandwidth light sources, pulse compression techniques, as well as generation of coherent broad-bandwidth radiation based on self-action effects of intense light pulses in wide aperture functional materials.
The product portfolio of LIGHT CONVERSION includes multiple laser sources such as PHAROS and CARBIDE femtosecond lasers, FLINT oscillators, and OPCPA systems widely used to investigate nonlinear phenomena.
- Tunable pulse duration, 100 fs – 20 ps
- Maximum pulse energy of up to 4 mJ
- Down to < 100 fs right at the output
- Pulse-on-demand and BiBurst for pulse control
- Up to 5th harmonic or tunable extensions
- CEP stabilization or repetition rate locking
- Thermally-stabilized and sealed design
- Tunable pulse duration, 190 fs – 20 ps
- Maximum output of 80 W and 2 mJ
- Single-shot – 2 MHz repetition rate
- Pulse-on-demand and BiBurst for pulse control
- Up to 5th harmonic or tunable extensions
- Air-cooled model
- Compact industrial-grade design
- 11, 20, 40, or 76 MHz repetition rate
- Down to 50 fs pulse duration
- High-power models, up to 20 W
- High-energy energy models, up to 0.6 µJ
- Industrial-grade design for high output stability
- CEP stabilization or repetition rate locking
- Few cycle pulses in a compact footprint
- 800 nm, 1600 nm, 2000 nm, or 3000 nm output
- High repetition rate, up to MHz
- Industrial-grade pump, up to 320 W, 8 mJ
- Exceptional power and pulse energy stability
- CEP stabilization option
Long seed, short pump: converting Yb-doped laser radiation to multi-µJ few-cycle pulses tunable through 2.5–15 µm
R. Budriūnas, K. Jurkus, M. Vengris, and A. Varanavičius, Optics Express 8 (30), 13009 (2022).
All-optical polarization and amplitude modulation of second-harmonic generation in atomically thin semiconductors
S. Klimmer, O. Ghaebi, Z. Gan, A. George, A. Turchanin, G. Cerullo, and G. Soavi, (2021).
High repetition rate green-pumped supercontinuum generation in calcium fluoride
V. Marčiulionytė, V. Jukna, G. Tamošauskas, and A. Dubietis, Scientific Reports 1 (11) (2021).
Influence of the piezoelectric ringing on the polarisation contrast of the KRTP Pockels cell in the modulation frequency range up to 10 MHz
D. Samsonas, D. Petrulionis, D. Grigaitis, and M. Vengris, in Components and Packaging for Laser Systems VII, A. L. Glebov, and P. O. Leisher, eds. (SPIE, 2021).
Intense few-cycle visible pulses directly generated via nonlinear fibre mode mixing
R. Piccoli, J. M. Brown, Y. G. Jeong, A. Rovere, L. Zanotto, M. B. Gaarde, F. Légaré, A. Couairon, J. C. Travers, R. Morandotti et al., Nature Photonics (2021).
Observation of Ultrafast Self-Action Effects in Quasi-BIC Resonant Metasurfaces
I. S. Sinev, K. Koshelev, Z. Liu, A. Rudenko, K. Ladutenko, A. Shcherbakov, Z. Sadrieva, M. Baranov, T. Itina, J. Liu et al., Nano Letters 20 (21), 8848-8855 (2021).
Solitary beam propagation in periodic layered Kerr media enables high-efficiency pulse compression and mode self-cleaning
S. Zhang, Z. Fu, B. Zhu, G. Fan, Y. Chen, S. Wang, Y. Liu, A. Baltuska, C. Jin, C. Tian et al., Light: Science & Applications 1 (10) (2021).
The Impact of Ion Migration on the Electro-Optic Effect in Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskites
M. Sun, R. Sabatini, P. Wang, A. M. Najarian, K. Bertens, A. Johnston, S. Hoogland, and E. H. Sargent, Advanced Functional Materials, 2107939 (2021).
Broadband Mid-Infrared Source Tunable through 3-11pm Based on Yb-doped Laser and Dual OPA Setup
R. Budriunas, K. Jurkus, and A. Varanavicius, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, (OSA, 2020).
Cascaded nonlinearities in high-power femtosecond optical parametric oscillator
I. Stasevičius, G. Martynaitis, and M. Vengris, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 3 (37), 721 (2020).