Title :
Overcoming intra-cavity nonlinear phase limitations in cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification through cavity-locking
Author :
Siddiqui, Aleem M. ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Kyung-Han Hong ; Kartner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
In cavity-enhanced OPCPA, nonlinear phase shifts imparted on the intracavity pump pulse limit pump power loading and degrade system performance. We show that cavity-locking offsets these effects, maintaining dramatic bandwidth extension and high conversion efficiency.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; laser cavity resonators; nonlinear optics; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; OPCPA; bandwidth extension; cavity locking; cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; high conversion efficiency; intracavity nonlinear phase limitations; intracavity pump pulse limit pump power loading; system performance; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Loading; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Propagation losses; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
