Title :
Strong bandwidth and efficiency improvement by passive pulse shaping in cavity-enhanced OPCPA
Author :
Siddiqui, Aleem M. ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
An enhancement cavity can optimally reshape the small-signal gain across the interacting pulses of a chirped-pulse parametric amplifier, increasing the gain bandwidth dramatically while simultaneously boosting the conversion efficiency.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse shaping; chirped-pulse parametric amplifier; conversion efficiency; enhancement cavity; gain bandwidth; interacting pulses; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; passive pulse shaping; small-signal gain; Bandwidth; Chirp; Frequency conversion; Impedance matching; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse shaping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse shaping methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; (190.4970) Parametric oscillators and amplifiers; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
