Title :
High repetition rate, mJ-level, mid-IR OPCPA system
Author :
Gerrity, M.R. ; Brown, Shannon ; Popmintchev, Tenio ; Murnane, Margaret M. ; Kapteyn, Henry C. ; Backus, Spencer
Author_Institution :
NIST, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We describe a kHz repetition-rate mid-IR laser system based on OPCPA, optimized for soft x-ray high harmonic generation. To date we have demonstrated 1.4mJ at 1.6μm, and 550μJ at 3μm, each with bandwidth compressible to <;100fs.
Keywords :
X-ray optics; chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; infrared spectra; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; optimisation; bandwidth compression; energy 1.4 mJ; energy 550 muJ; high repetition rate OPCPA system; mid-IR OPCPA system; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; optimization; soft X-ray high harmonic generation; wavelength 1.6 mum; wavelength 3 mum; Bandwidth; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Oscillators; Ultrafast optics; X-ray lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
