Title :
Demonstration of bandwidth and conversion efficiency improvements beyond phase-matching limitations in cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
Author :
Siddiqui, Aleem M. ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Kartner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci. & Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) extends the capabilities of nonlinear crystals beyond material property limitations, namely nonlinear-coefficient and dispersion. Here we show a dramatic increase in conversion and a three-fold increase in gain bandwidth.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; OPCPA; bandwidth efficiency; cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; conversion efficiency; dispersion; gain bandwidth; nonlinear crystals; nonlinear-coefficient; phase-matching limitations; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Tuning;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
