Title :
Dispersion-induced depletion instabilities in cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
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
Abstract :
In a cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier, natural instabilities arise due to the interplay of pump depletion and dispersion when pulse durations longer than the pump to signal/idler walk-off lengths are used.
Keywords :
optical dispersion; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; dispersion-induced depletion instabilities; natural instabilities; pulse durations; pump depletion; signal/idler walk-off lengths; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Phase modulation; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
