High-power, few-cycle, phase-stabilized 2.2-µm optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier

Author

Huang, Shu-Wei ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Falcão-Filho, Edilson L. ; Benedick, Andrew ; Bolger, Jeremy ; Eggleton, Benjamin ; Kärtner, Franz X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate a high-peak-power, 1-kHz, 2.2-mum OPCPA for long-wavelength-driven high harmonic generation that produces 9-GW, 3-optical-cycle, CEP-stabilized pulses, allowing tunneling-ionization-threshold intensity with low Guoy phase shift.

Keywords

chirp modulation; laser beams; laser stability; optical harmonic generation; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; 3-optical-cycle; CEP-stabilized pulse; Guoy phase shift; OPCPA; frequency 1 kHz; long-wavelength-driven high harmonic generation; optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier; power 9 GW; size 2.2 mum; tunneling-ionization-threshold intensity; Chirp; High power amplifiers; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; (190.4970) Parametric oscillators and amplifiers; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

Filename

5225513