@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 $\mu$m. 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 = {Fischbach, Stefan and Gorbach, Andrey V. and {Di Nuzzo}, Daniele and {Da Como}, Enrico},
doi = {10.1063/1.4926915},
issn = {0003-6951},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
month = {jul},
number = {2},
pages = {021103},
publisher = {AIP Publishing},
title = {{Near infrared ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy with ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF fiber supercontinuum}},
url = {http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/107/2/10.1063/1.4926915},
volume = {107},
year = {2015}
}