Microlaser pumped, engineerable bandwidth parametric chirped-pulse amplifier using electric-field-poled LiNbO/sub 3/

Author

Galvanauskas, A. ; Hariharan, A. ; Harter, D. ; Arbore, M.A. ; Fejer, M.M.

Author_Institution

IMRA America Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have demonstrated the use of periodically poled LiNbO/sub 3/ as a practical diode-pumped parametric gain medium for ultrashort pulse amplification. The essential advantage is that a high single-pass gain is achievable without the need for regenerative or multiple-pass amplification. Uniquely, such an amplifier has engineerable optical properties, which potentially can provide extremely broad gain bandwidths suitable for amplification of few femtosecond pulses.

Keywords

dielectric polarisation; high-speed optical techniques; lithium compounds; optical materials; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; LiNbO/sub 3/; diode-pumped parametric gain medium; electric-field-poled LiNbO/sub 3/; engineerable bandwidth; engineerable optical properties; extremely broad gain bandwidths; femtosecond pulse amplification; high single-pass gain; microlaser pumped; optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier; periodically poled LiNbO/sub 3/; ultrashort pulse amplification; Bandwidth; Chirp; Diodes; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

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.1998.675801

Filename

675801