Title :
Performance scaling of ultrabroadband OPCPA with conformal pulse profiles
Author :
Moses, Jeffrey ; Huang, Shu-Wei ; Kartner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Employing closed-form solutions derived for the pump-depletion regime of parametric amplification, we show that application of conformal profile theory to ultrabroadband OPCPA can extend its efficiency, bandwidth, and peak-power capabilities by several hundred percent.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
