Programmable phase compensation in a multipass Ti:sapphire CPA system

Author

Efimov, A. ; Moores, M.D. ; Schaffer, Chris B. ; Reitze, D.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

165

Lastpage

166

Abstract

Summary form only given. We demonstrate the programmable control over the phase of sub-30-fs pulses in a 10-pass chirped-pulse laser amplifier using a pulse stretcher incorporating a programmable liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM). The distinct advantage of this method is that almost arbitrary spectral phase profile can be programmed into the SLM. The amplifier is seeded by 15-fs 2-nJ pulses produced by a Ti:sapphire laser.

Keywords

chirp modulation; compensation; high-speed optical techniques; liquid crystal devices; optical modulation; sapphire; solid lasers; spatial light modulators; titanium; 30 fs; Ti:sapphire laser; arbitrary spectral phase profile; chirped-pulse laser amplifier; fs pulses; multipass Ti:sapphire CPA system; nJ pulses; programmable liquid crystal spatial light modulator; programmable phase compensation; pulse stretcher; Bragg gratings; Chirp; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676005

Filename

676005