Title :
High-energy, few-cycle, kHz OPCPA at 2.1 μm pumped by a picosecond cryogenic Yb:YAG laser
Author :
Hong, Kyung-Han ; Huang, Shu-Wei ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Fu, Xing ; Lai, Chien-Jen ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol. (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We report on a kHz, mJ-level, ultrabroadband, phase-stable 2.1-μm OPCPA for high-flux water-window high-order harmonic generation. The final stage is pumped by a high-energy, 15-ps cryogenic Yb:YAG CPA laser optically synchronized to the signal.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser stability; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; high-energy few-cycle OPCPA; high-flux water-window high-order harmonic generation; optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification; optically synchronized pumping; picosecond cryogenic laser pumping; time 15 ps; ultrabroadband phase-stable OPCPA; wavelength 2.1 mum; Cryogenics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
