Ultrawideband regenerative amplifiers via intracavity Acousto-Optic Programmable Gain Control

Author

Oksenhendler, Thomas ; Kaplan, Daniel ; Tournois, Pierre ; Greetham, Gregory M. ; Estable, Frederic

Author_Institution

FASTLITE, Ecole Polytech. Palaiseau, Palaiseau

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A new Brewster cut acousto-optic programmable gain control filter combined with an AOPDF pulse shaper optimizes the spectral losses of a 10 Hz CPA Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier to obtain 18 fs duration, 1.2%-rms stability, 107 contrast ratio.

Keywords

acousto-optical filters; chirp modulation; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; optical control; optical losses; optical pulse shaping; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; ultra wideband technology; AOPDF pulse shaper; Al₂O₃:Ti; Brewster cut acousto-optic programmable gain control filter; CPA titanium doped sapphire regenerative amplifier; chirped-pulse amplification; intracavity AOPGCF; rms stability; spectral losses; time 18 fs; ultrawideband regenerative amplifiers; Acoustic beams; Acoustic diffraction; Bandwidth; Filters; Gain control; Gratings; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Ultra wideband technology; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628149

Filename

4628149