Ultrabroadband optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier system for single-cycle waveform synthesis

Author

Huang, Shu-Wei ; Cirmi, Giovanni ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Benedick, Andrew ; Chen, Li-Jin ; Li, Enbang ; Eggleton, Benjamin ; Cerullo, Giulio ; Kärtner, Franz X.

Author_Institution

Res. Lab. ofElectronics, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

16-21 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate synchronized few-cycle 800-nm and 2-μm pulse trains seeded from a single Ti:sapphire oscillator, able to generate scalable, high-energy pulses lasting less than a single electric-field cycle. Such pulses are attractive for high-field physics.

Keywords

chirp modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al₂O₃:Ti; high-field physics; pulse generation; single electric-field cycle; single-cycle waveform synthesis; ultrabroadband optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier; wavelength 800 nm; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Physics; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-890-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-890-2

Type

conf

Filename

5499984