Title :
Amplification of ultrashort optical pulses in a two-pump fiber optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier
Author :
Beaure d´Augeres, Patrick ; Hugonnot, Emmanuel ; Stroiazzo, Lea ; Kudlinski, Alexandre ; Mussot, Arnaud
Author_Institution :
Centre d´Etudes Scientifiques et Tech. d´Aquitaine, Commissariat a l´Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Le Barp, France
Abstract :
Numerical simulations show that FOPCPA is able to amplify 50fs pulses and that saturation regime allows reducing pulse duration down to 15 fs. Preliminaries experimental results confirm that a flat and broad gain bandwidth is obtained.
Keywords :
laser beams; numerical analysis; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; FOPCPA; broad gain bandwidth; flat gain bandwidth; numerical simulations; pulse duration reduction; saturation regime; time 50 fs to 15 fs; two-pump fiber optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier; ultrashort optical pulse amplification; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
