@article{Fischbach2015,
   abstract = {We report on the performance of a setup designed for femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy in the near infrared (NIR) spectral region. We generate a supercontinuum (SC) probe by coupling 140 fs light pulses at 1550 nm into a ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF (ZBLAN) fiber. The combined high nonlinearity and transparency of the ZBLAN fluoride glass allows us to obtain a SC probe from 1 to 2.6 μm. The NIR pulses are used to demonstrate a proof of principle experiment probing the relaxation of photo induced excitations in a conjugated polymer:fullerene blend film. The results show the possibility to perform fibre based NIR SC femtosecond spectroscopy at >100 KHz repetition rate and using lasers with pulse energy just above 300 nJ.},
   author = {Stefan Fischbach and Andrey V. Gorbach and Daniele Di Nuzzo and Enrico Da Como},
   doi = {10.1063/1.4926915},
   issn = {0003-6951},
   issue = {2},
   journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
   month = {7},
   pages = {021103},
   publisher = {AIP Publishing},
   title = {Near infrared ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy with ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF fiber supercontinuum},
   volume = {107},
   url = {http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/107/2/10.1063/1.4926915},
   year = {2015}
}