Strong bandwidth and efficiency improvement by passive pulse shaping in cavity-enhanced OPCPA

Author

Siddiqui, Aleem M. ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Kärtner, Franz X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

An enhancement cavity can optimally reshape the small-signal gain across the interacting pulses of a chirped-pulse parametric amplifier, increasing the gain bandwidth dramatically while simultaneously boosting the conversion efficiency.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse shaping; chirped-pulse parametric amplifier; conversion efficiency; enhancement cavity; gain bandwidth; interacting pulses; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; passive pulse shaping; small-signal gain; Bandwidth; Chirp; Frequency conversion; Impedance matching; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse shaping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse shaping methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; (190.4970) Parametric oscillators and amplifiers; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225448