Generation of three-cycle, 16 TW light pulses by use of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Author

Herrmann, Daniel ; Veisz, Laszlo ; Tautz, Raphael ; Buck, Alexander ; Tavella, Franz ; Schmid, Karl ; Pervak, Vladimir ; Scharrer, Michael ; Russell, Philip ; Krausz, Ferenc

Author_Institution

Max-Planck Inst. fur Quantenopt., Garching, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We report the first generation of three-cycle, 8 fs, 125 mJ optical pulses in a noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier (NOPCPA) operating at 805 nm central wavelength. These 16 TW laser pulses are compressed to within 5% of their Fourier limit. These parameters come in combination with an amplified pulse contrast-ratio of 10^-5 at Deltat=plusmn5ps and >10^-7 at t<-5ps limited by the detection barrier. Numerical split-step simulations are performed to investigate potential improvements for the NOPCPA laser system.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; Fourier limit; NOPCPA laser system; detection barrier; energy 125 mJ; laser pulses; noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; optical pulses; power 16 TW; three-cyclelight pulse generation; time 8 fs; wavelength 805 nm; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Numerical simulation; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196352

Filename

5196352