Narrow-Bandwidth Optical Parametric Amplifier ORPHEUS-PS

  • Picosecond pulses from femtosecond pump
  • 210 – 4800 nm tuning range
  • 800 fs – 3 ps pulse duration
  • < 20 cm-1 spectral bandwidth
  • Up to 100 kHz repetition rate
  • High output stability

Features

  • Picosecond pulses from femtosecond pump
  • 210 – 4800 nm tuning range
  • 800 fs – 3 ps pulse duration
  • < 20 cm-1 spectral bandwidth
  • Up to 100 kHz repetition rate
  • High output stability

ORPHEUS-PS is a narrow-bandwidth optical parametric amplifier (OPA), designed for PHAROS and CARBIDE lasers. The device is pumped by picosecond pulses produced in a second harmonic bandwidth compressor SHBC and is seeded by a white-light continuum generated by femtosecond pulses. This enables very high pulse-to-pulse energy stability compared to other methods for generating tunable picosecond pulses. The white-light generation is integrated into the same housing as the amplification, enabling high long-term stability and ease of use. The system features high conversion efficiency, bandwidth- and diffraction-limited output, and full computer control.

Part of the pump laser radiation can be split to simultaneously pump a femtosecond OPA, giving access to the complete set of beams necessary for versatile spectroscopy applications such as femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) and sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy.

  • Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS)
  • Sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy
Model ORPHEUS-PS
Tuning range 1) 640 – 1000 nm (Signal)
1060 – 2600 nm (Idler)
Conversion efficiency at peak > 8% (Signal and Idler combined)
Pulse duration 800 fs – 3 ps
Spectral bandwidth < 20 cm-1 @ 700 – 2000 nm
Pulse-to-pulse energy stability 2) < 2% @ 800 nm
  1. For single wavelength (515 nm) picosecond output, refer to SHBC.
  2. Expressed as NRMSD (normalized root mean squared deviation).
Model ORPHEUS-PS
Wavelength 1) 515 nm ± 5 nm
Generation efficiency 2) > 15%
  1. Direct SHBC output, not simultaneous to OPA; see details in SHBC specifications.
  2. Specified as percentage of pump pulse energy.
Model ORPHEUS-PS
Wavelength 1) 1030 ± 10 nm
Pulse duration < 300 fs
Pulse energy > 5 µJ
  1. Compressed pump output.
Model ORPHEUS-PS
SH package at peak
320 – 500 nm (SHS), 530 – 640 nm (SHI)
> 3%
FH package at peak
210 – 250 nm (FHS), 265 – 320 nm (FHI)
> 0.3% 1)
2400 – 4800 nm (DFG) > 0.25% @ 3200 nm 1)
  1. For > 200 µJ pump pulse energy.
Model ORPHEUS-PS
Pump laser PHAROS or CARBIDE with uncompressed output option
Wavelength 1030 ± 10 nm
Repetition rate Single-shot – 100 kHz
Maximum pump power 20 W
Pump pulse energy 100 μJ – 3.2 mJ

Incoherent phonon population and exciton-exciton annihilation dynamics in monolayer WS2 revealed by time-resolved Resonance Raman scattering

S. Han, C. Boguschewski, Y. Gao, L. Xiao, J. Zhu, and P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, Optics Express 21 (27), 29949 (2019).

A tunable time-resolved spontaneous Raman spectroscopy setup for probing ultrafast collective excitation and quasiparticle dynamics in quantum materials

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Exciton and phonon dynamics in highly aligned 7-atom wide armchair graphene nanoribbons as seen by time-resolved spontaneous Raman scattering

J. Zhu, R. German, B. V. Senkovskiy, D. Haberer, F. R. Fischer, A. Grüneis, and P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, Nanoscale 37 (10), 17975-17982 (2018).

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