Noncollinear optical parametric amplification of a supercontinuum
During this thesis, work has been done towards realizing a short-wave infrared (SWIR) laser source based on optical parametric amplification. It is planned that this setup should be able to produce few-cycle laser pulses at 2μm with a stable carrier-envelope phase (CEP). This will be done by using various nonlinear processes to convert the output from a 1030-nm, 200 kHz laser source, based on Yb-d