• DocumentCode
    1655888
  • Title

    Dispersion-induced depletion instabilities in cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

  • Author

    Siddiqui, Aleem M. ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Kärtner, Franz X.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    In a cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier, natural instabilities arise due to the interplay of pump depletion and dispersion when pulse durations longer than the pump to signal/idler walk-off lengths are used.
  • Keywords
    optical dispersion; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; dispersion-induced depletion instabilities; natural instabilities; pulse durations; pump depletion; signal/idler walk-off lengths; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Phase modulation; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325744