Title :
Millijoule level ultra broad brand amplification of 20 femtosecond pulses using birefringent filters
Author :
Bagnoud, V. ; Salin, F.
Author_Institution :
Centre Lasers Intenses et Appl., Bordeaux I Univ., Talence, France
Abstract :
Summary form only given. In order to bring chirped pulse amplification (CPA) to its limit several issues still need to be solved. Among them is a reliable way of fighting gain narrowing in the amplifiers. We show here that a birefringent filter can compensate for gain narrowing in typical regenerative amplifiers. This set up is used to amplify sub-20 fs pulses to the millijoule level.
Keywords :
birefringence; chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical filters; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; pulse amplifiers; 20 fs; amplifiers; birefringent filter; birefringent filters; chirped pulse amplification; femtosecond pulses; gain narrowing; millijoule level; millijoule level ultra broad brand amplification; regenerative amplifiers; Birefringence; Fabry-Perot; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Laser stability; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Power harmonic filters; Pulse amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-595-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1999.834161
