• DocumentCode
    689023
  • Title

    Amplification of ultrashort optical pulses in a two-pump fiber optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier

  • Author

    Beaure d´Augeres, Patrick ; Hugonnot, Emmanuel ; Stroiazzo, Lea ; Kudlinski, Alexandre ; Mussot, Arnaud

  • Author_Institution
    Centre d´Etudes Scientifiques et Tech. d´Aquitaine, Commissariat a l´Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Le Barp, France
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Numerical simulations show that FOPCPA is able to amplify 50fs pulses and that saturation regime allows reducing pulse duration down to 15 fs. Preliminaries experimental results confirm that a flat and broad gain bandwidth is obtained.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; numerical analysis; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; FOPCPA; broad gain bandwidth; flat gain bandwidth; numerical simulations; pulse duration reduction; saturation regime; time 50 fs to 15 fs; two-pump fiber optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier; ultrashort optical pulse amplification; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833403