A 5 fs OPCPA laser system for attosecond pulse production

Author

Bates, Philip ; Tang, Yunxin ; Springate, Emma ; Ross, Ian ; Tisch, John ; Marangos, Jon ; Smith, Roland

Author_Institution

Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton, UK

fYear

2005

fDate

12-17 June 2005

Firstpage

404

Abstract

We present a laser system designed to produce 5 fs, 10 mJ laser pulses with stable carrier-envelope phase at a repetition rate of up to 1 kHz. The system uses OPCPA as it enables ultrashort pulses to be amplified to much higher energies than are currently available from Ti:Sapphire CPA systems. Through high-harmonic generation, our OPCPA design will enable efficient production of isolated attosecond pulses for molecular physics and surface science experiments by the UK Attosecond Basic Technology Consortium.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 10 mJ; 5 fs; Al₂O₃:Ti; Ti:sapphire CPA system; UK Attosecond Basic Technology Consortium; attosecond pulse; high-harmonic generation; laser system design; molecular physics; optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification; surface science experiment; ultrashort pulse amplification; Bandwidth; Laser excitation; Laser stability; Optical amplifiers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Production systems; Pulse amplifiers; X-ray lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8974-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568183

Filename

1568183