Title :
Optical-parametric chirped-pulse amplification using a positive dispersive material for pulse stretching and compression
Author :
Yamakawa, Koichi ; Akahane, Yutaka ; Ogawa, Kanade
Author_Institution :
Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
We have proposed and demonstrated a novel optical-parametric chirped-pulse amplification scheme in which an even order dispersion of an idler pulse is compensated by passing through an identical positive dispersive material used for temporal stretching a signal pulse. By compressing the idler pulses having a negatively chirp in this manner, high power sub-100 fs pulses were successfully obtained with only a transparent glass block used for the stretcher and compressor.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; dispersive media; high-speed optical techniques; optical glass; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; even order dispersion; fs pulses; optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification; positive dispersive material; pulse compression; pulse stretching; transparent glass block;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699038
