Title :
High efficiency, multi-mJ, sub 10 fs, optical parametric amplifier at 3 kHz
Author :
Fattahi, Hanieh ; Skrobol, Christoph ; Ueffing, Moritz ; Deng, Yunpei ; Schwarz, Alexander ; Kida, Yuichiro ; Pervak, Vladimir ; Metzger, Thomas ; Major, Zsuzsanna ; Krausz, Ferenc
Author_Institution :
Max-Planck-Inst. of Quantum Opt. (MPQ), Garching, Germany
Abstract :
We present a short-pulse pumped optical parametric amplifier (OPA) with a broadband spectrum from 670 nm to 1000 nm, supporting 5.7 fs pulses with >; 32 % pump-to-signal conversion efficiency resulting in pulse energies of 2.5 mJ.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; energy 2.5 mJ; optical parametric amplifier; short pulse pumped OPA; time 5.7 fs; wavelength 670 nm to 1000 nm; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
