9-cycle duration, micro-Joule energy, mid-IR pulses from a 100 kHz OPCPA

Author

Chalus, Olivier ; Bates, Philip ; Smolarski, Mathias ; Biegert, Jens

Author_Institution

ICFO-Inst. de Cienc. Fotoniques, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The authors have devised a completely new source of ultrashort laser pulses (9 cycles) in the mid-IR (3.2 mum) with a repetition rate of 100 kHz. This novel design is compact, solid-state, solely based on OPCPA, and incorporates a fibre seeder as well as solid-state pump laser, thereby ensuring maximum reliability and hands-off operation. The pulse energy, measured after compression, is 1.2 muJ and already sufficient for some strong field experiment as well as spectroscopy.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; solid lasers; OPCPA; fibre seeder; frequency 100 kHz; microJoule energy; mid-infrared pulses; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; pulse compression; solid-state pump laser; ultrashort laser pulses; Energy measurement; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical design; Optical pulses; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Solid state circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196472

Filename

5196472