Title :
Generation of femtosecond laser pulse at 1053 nm with contrast ratio of 1011 by optical-parametric amplification
Author :
Zhongwei Shen ; Zhaohua Wang ; Wei Zhang ; Qing Wang ; Haitao Fan ; Hao Teng ; Zhiyi Wei
Author_Institution :
Beijing Nat. Lab. for Condensed Matter Phys., Inst. of Phys., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We demonstrated a high contrast 1053 nm femtosecond laser by exchanging the signal and idler in two stages non-collinear optical-parametric amplifier, 60 μI idler with measurement-limited contrast of 2.3×1011 was obtained within scale of sub-10 ps.
Keywords :
laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; contrast ratio; femtosecond laser pulse generation; high contrast femtosecond laser; idler; measurement-limited contrast; optical-parametric amplification; signal; time 10 ps; two stage noncollinear optical-parametric amplifier; wavelength 1053 nm; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
