Multiterawatt Ti:sapphire lasers in the 10-fs regime

Author

Barty, C.P. ; Guo, Tengjiao ; Leblanc, C. ; Raksi, F. ; Rose-Petruck, C. ; Squier, Jeff ; Walker, Benjamin ; Wilson, K.R. ; Yakovlev, Vladislav V. ; Yamakawa, Kiyoshi

Author_Institution

Inst. for Nonlinear Sci., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

305

Lastpage

306

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper, we present results of a three-stage Ti:sapphire laser amplification system that is designed to produce 1J pulses of 15 fs in duration. To date, the first two stages of amplification have produced 18 fs, 4 TW pulses at a repetition rate of 50 Hz and an average power 4 W. To our knowledge, these intermediate results represent the shortest terawatt pulses, the highest expansion ratio and the highest average power yet produced by any chirped pulse amplification system.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical modulation; optical pulse compression; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 1 J; 10 fs; 18 fs; 4 TW; average power; chirped pulse amplification system; fs regime; highest expansion ratio; multiterawatt Ti:sapphire lasers; repetition rate; terawatt pulses; three-stage Ti:sapphire laser amplification system; Bandwidth; Design optimization; Optical amplifiers; Optical materials; Optical pulse shaping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Pulse shaping methods; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864711