Title :
High-Power Femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplifier in the Near-IR Based on BiB3O6
Author :
Petrov, Valentin ; Noack, Frank ; Tzankov, Pancho ; Ghotbi, Masood ; Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid ; Nikolov, Ivailo ; Buchvarov, Ivan
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin
Abstract :
Power scaling to >1 mJ is demonstrated for a tunable (1.1-2.9 mum) femtosecond (<140 fs) optical parametric amplifier based on the monoclinic crystal BiB3O6, pumped near 800 nm by a 1 kHz Ti:sapphire laser amplifier.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; BiB3O6; frequency 1 kHz; high-power femtosecond optical parametric amplifier; monoclinic crystal; output energy; power scaling; High power amplifiers; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453134
