Double-pass optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier

Author

Li Xiao-Li ; Zhou Hua

Author_Institution

Coll. of Electron. Eng., Xi´an Univ. of Post &Telecommun., Xi´an, China

Volume

5

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

2663

Lastpage

2665

Abstract

A double-pass noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier has been demonstrated. The signal is double-pass amplified in a single nonlinear crystal by a nanosecond pump pulse. The first-pass optical parametric amplification is completely phase matched in the plane of the maximum effective nonlinearity, and the other pass works symmetrically near to the first-pass optical parametric amplification plane. This architecture efficiently increases the overall gain, overcomes the optical parametric fluorescence. This scheme has been used respectively in the optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers which the signal is an Yb-doped passively mode-locked fiber laser or a Kerr lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillator.

Keywords

amplification; fluorescence; optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; optical pumping; Kerr lens mode-locked oscillator; double-pass amplified signal; double-pass noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier; first-pass optical parametric amplification; nanosecond pump pulse; nonlinear crystal; optical parametric fluorescence; passively mode-locked fiber laser; phase matching; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics; laser amplifiers; parametric oscillators and amplifiers; ultrafast lasers; ultrafast technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic and Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology (EMEIT), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-087-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMEIT.2011.6023645

Filename

6023645