2-micron optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier for long-wavelength driven high harmonic generation

Author

Moses, Jeffrey ; Mucke, Oliver D. ; Benedick, Andrew ; Falcao-Filho, Edilson L. ; Huang, Shu-Wei ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Siddiqui, Aleem M. ; Birge, Jonathan R. ; Omer, I.F. ; Kartner, Franz X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

An optical parametric chirped pulse amplification system producing high-energy, few-cycle pulses at 2.0-mum wavelength with low superfluorescence noise background for high harmonic generation in gas jets is demonstrated.

Keywords

chirp modulation; gas lasers; laser beams; laser noise; optical harmonic generation; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; optical pulse generation; superradiance; gas jets; long-wavelength driven high harmonic generation; low superfluorescence noise background; optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier; pulse production; wavelength 2 micron; Background noise; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; (230.4480) Optical amplifiers; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571875