Development of high power femtosecond lasers based on the optical parametric chirped pulse amplifications

Author

Xu, Zhi-Zhan ; Zhang, Zheng-quan ; Yang, Xiao-dong ; Lin, Li-huang ; Li, Ru-Xin ; Leng, Yu-xin ; Zhang, Wen-qi ; Lu, Hai-he

Author_Institution

Inst. of Opt. & Fine Mech., Acad. Sinica, Shanghai, China

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

663

Abstract

The optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA) technique is promising for constructing a higher than 100-TW laser system, which is very useful for high intensity physics. We are constructing an OPCPA system generating 10 TW at 1064 nm output for validating system feasibility. The system consists of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser oscillator, a Nd:YAG/Nd:glass hybrid pump source, three LiB₃O ₅ (LBO) optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) and a final KH ₂PO₄ (KDP) OPA stage

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 10 TW; 100 TW; 1064 nm; KH₂PO₄; LiB₃O₅; Ti:sapphire laser oscillator; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; femtosecond Ti:sapphire oscillator; high intensity physics; high power femtosecond lasers; hybrid pump source; laser system; optical parametric amplifier; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.968988

Filename

968988