Near-IR Femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplifier at 1 MHz Seeded by Parametrically Generated Light

Author

Marangoni, M. ; Osellame, R. ; Ramponi, R. ; Cerullo, G. ; Morgne, U.

Author_Institution

ULTRAS-CNR-INFM, Milan

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This paper demonstrates an high repetition rate OPA, directly pumped by a laser oscillator, generating 220 fs pulses with up to 190 nJ energy at 1 MHz, tunable in the 1330-1600 nm (signal). It exploits a pair of PPLN crystals with the same poling periods, one providing the seed pulses by optical parametric generation (OPG), and the other allowing for their power amplification.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; energy 190 nJ; frequency 1 MHz; laser oscillator; near-IR femtosecond optical parametric amplifier; optical parametric generation; poling periods; power amplification; wavelength 1330 nm to 1600 nm; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386114

Filename

4386114