Title :
Fourier plane Optical Parametric amplification for simultaneous up-scaling of laser pulse energy and bandwidth
Author :
Schmidt, B.E. ; Thire, N. ; Boivin, Maxime ; Laramee, Antoine ; Poitras, Francois ; Lebrun, G. ; Ozaki, Takashi ; Kieffer, Jean-Claude ; Ibrahim, Haidi ; Legare, Francois
Author_Institution :
Inst. Nat. de la Rech. Sci., Centre Energie Mater. et Telecommun., Varennes, QC, Canada
Abstract :
The work explores the concept of Fourier domain parametric amplification which turns the tables for the general dilemma in ultrafast laser amplifiers. The usual trade off between large bandwidth and high energy no longer holds and these two parameters can be increased simultaneously.
Keywords :
Fourier transform optics; high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; Fourier plane optical parametric amplification; bandwidth; laser pulse energy; ultrafast laser amplifiers; Bandwidth; Crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Quantum cascade lasers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0593-5
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801085
