Multimillijoule optically synchronized and CEP-stabilized chirped parametric amplification at 1.5 μm

Author

Mucke, O.D. ; Sidorov, D. ; Dombi, P. ; Pugzlys, A. ; Baltuska, A. ; Alisauskas, S. ; Pocius, J. ; Giniunas, L. ; Danielis, R.

Author_Institution

Photonics Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Efficient infrared 35-THz-wide parametric amplification with energies above 3 mJ is obtained in a 3-stage OPCPA using a combination of a 1030-nm 200-fs Yb- and a 1064-nm 60-ps Nd amplifier seeded with a common Yb oscillator.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; solid lasers; synchronisation; 3-stage OPCPA; IR OPCPA system; JkJk:Nd; JkJk:Yb; frequency 35 THz; multimillijoule optical synchronization; neodymium amplifier; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; time 200 fs; time 60 ps; wavelength 1.5 mum; wavelength 1030 nm; wavelength 1064 nm; wide parametric amplification; ytterbium oscillator; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics; (190.4970) Parametric oscillators and amplifiers; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571878