Title :
Effects of nonlinear refractive index on few-cycle PW-class OPCPA
Author :
Thai, Alexandre ; Skrobol, Christoph ; Bates, Philip K. ; Arisholm, Gunnar ; Major, Zsuzsanna ; Krausz, Ferenc ; Karsch, Stefan ; Biegert, Jens
Author_Institution :
ICFO-Inst. de Cienc. Fotoniques, Castelldefels, Spain
Abstract :
We present here simulations for an OPCPA laser design similar to the Petawatt Field Synthesizer (PFS), which aims to deliver pulses with 5 fs and 3 J energy. Our simulations typically include the effects of depletion, diffraction, walk-off, and dispersion, with the possibility to take multiple second-order nonlinear interactions (e.g. parasitic SHG of the pump) as well as quantum noise and nonlinear refractive index effects into consideration.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; frequency synthesizers; laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; refractive index; OPCPA laser design; Petawatt field synthesizer; few cycle PW class OPCPA; nonlinear refractive index; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943514
