Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Moléculaire de Surface

Publication

A.A. Mani, L. Dreesen, C. Humbert, Ph. Hollander, Y. Caudano, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans

Development of a two-color picosecond optical parametric oscillator, pumped by a Nd:YAG laser mode locked using a nonlinear mirror, for doubly-resonant sum frequency generation spectroscopy

A.A. Mani (1), L. Dreesen (1), C. Humbert (1), Ph. Hollander (1), Y. Caudano (1), P.A. Thiry (1), and A. Peremans (1)

Surf. Sci., 502-503 (2002) 261-267

Abstract

We set up a doubly-resonant sum frequency generation (DR-SFG) spectrometer based on the use of an all-solid-state flash-lamp-pumped Nd:YAG laser that synchronously pumps two parametric oscillators. Pulses as short as 12 ps FWHM are generated by mode locking a Nd:YAG oscillator using a frequency doubling nonlinear mirror combined with a two-photon absorber. The available pump power is shared between a LiNbO3/AgGaS2 optical parametric oscillator (OPO), tunable from 3800 to 1100 cm-1 and a BBO OPO tunable from 410 to 2600 nm. Spectral resolution and pulse are 2 and 3 cm-1 in the infrared and visible spectral ranges, respectively. First DR-SFG spectra of self-assembled monolayers on Au are presented.

Author addresses

Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Moléculaire de Surface (LASMOS)
Institute for Studies in Interface Science (ISIS)
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP)
61 Rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur, Belgium

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