• DocumentCode
    2080425
  • Title

    Effects of nonlinear refractive index on few-cycle PW-class OPCPA

  • Author

    Thai, Alexandre ; Skrobol, Christoph ; Bates, Philip K. ; Arisholm, Gunnar ; Major, Zsuzsanna ; Krausz, Ferenc ; Karsch, Stefan ; Biegert, Jens

  • Author_Institution
    ICFO-Inst. de Cienc. Fotoniques, Castelldefels, Spain
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    22-26 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    We present here simulations for an OPCPA laser design similar to the Petawatt Field Synthesizer (PFS), which aims to deliver pulses with 5 fs and 3 J energy. Our simulations typically include the effects of depletion, diffraction, walk-off, and dispersion, with the possibility to take multiple second-order nonlinear interactions (e.g. parasitic SHG of the pump) as well as quantum noise and nonlinear refractive index effects into consideration.
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; frequency synthesizers; laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; refractive index; OPCPA laser design; Petawatt field synthesizer; few cycle PW class OPCPA; nonlinear refractive index; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0533-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    Pending
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943514
  • Filename
    5943514