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77<br />

Grating<br />

Output<br />

Input<br />

Mirror<br />

Grating<br />

Figure 2.10. Schematic of a typical compressor.<br />

The compressor consists of pair of gratings placed parallel to achieve negative<br />

dispersion. The negative dispersion delays the red part of spectrum compared to blue. The<br />

compressed pulse has duration of 50fs. Since the amplified pulse has a very high peak power<br />

this pulse can be exploited to exhibit nonlinearity, which in turn is useful in second harmonic<br />

and white light generation. The compressed pulse has energy of 1.13W with wavelength<br />

centered at 800nm. This pulse is used to generate 400nm pump and white light ranging from<br />

450nm-1100nm used as the probe for our studies.<br />

2. 8. 3. Second Harmonic Generation-400nm Pump<br />

The second harmonic generation of 800nm output of Ti-S amplifier system is<br />

accomplished by using β-barium borate (BBO). The induced dielectric polarization in a<br />

material in presence of electric field of light is given by<br />

P( E E <br />

E ...)<br />

(2.15)<br />

(1) (2) 2 (3) 3<br />

0 0 0

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