High-average-power 1.5-fs transform-limited laser system

Author

Bartels, Randy ; Murnane, Margaret M. ; Kapteyn, Henry C. ; Backus, Spencer ; Zeek, E. ; Vdovin, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

118

Abstract

Summary form only given.We present a high-average-power, all-diode-pumped laser system delivering ultrashort-pulse (15 fs), transform-limited output at 1-kHz repetition rate. The high-order spectral phase distortions that are usually present in the output of an amplifier system, and that lead to incomplete compression in the wings of the pulse, were eliminated by using a deformable mirror pulse shaper incorporated into the amplifier system. In past work, we demonstrated that the deformable mirror (DM) pulse shaper could compress the output from an oscillator. In this work we demonstrate that the DM has sufficient resolution to correct phase distortions in an amplifier system. Moreover, we demonstrate for the first time that transform-limited operation is possible from an amplifier system, and that spectral phase corrections increase the temporal contrast ratio of the pulse.

Keywords

optical harmonic generation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; solid lasers; 15 fs; SHG; all-diode-pumped laser system; deformable mirror pulse shaper; group delay; high-average-power; phase distortions correction; spectral phase corrections; temporal contrast ratio; transform-limited output; ultrashort-pulse laser; zero-dispersion stretcher; Fiber lasers; Samarium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.906800

Filename

906800