Title :
Monocycle pulse generation and octave bandwidth amplification
Author :
Yamane, Keisaku ; Tanigawa, Takashi ; Sekikawa, Taro ; Yamashita, Mikio
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrated experimentally the generation of 65-muJ, 5.8-fs optical pulses with an ultrabroad bandwidth (540 - 1000 nm) by the use of a double-pass angularly-dispersed noncollinear optical parametric amplifier.
Keywords :
laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; double-pass angularly-dispersed NOPA; energy 65 muJ; high power laser source; monocycle pulse generation; noncollinear optical parametric amplifier; octave bandwidth amplification; time 5.8 fs; ultrabroad bandwidth pulse; Bandwidth; Lenses; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Stimulated emission; NOPA; monocycle; octave;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292097
