Carrier-envelope-phase-stable, 12 mJ, 15 cycle laser pulses at 21 μm

Deng, Yunpei; Schwarz, Alexander; Fattahi, Hanieh; Ueffing, Moritz; Gu, Xun; Ossiander, Marcus; Metzger, Thomas; Pervak, V.; Ishizuki, Hideki; Taira, Takunori; Kobayashi, Takayoshi; Marcus, Gilad; Krausz, Ferenc; Kienberger, Reinhard; Karpowicz, Nicholas

doi:10.1364/ol.37.004973

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“…[8][9][10][11]. The small noncollinearity in such systems only has a minor influence on the phase-matching properties, unlike the approach we use here.…”

Section: Phase-matching and Parametric Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A finite Δk at the center wavelength can broaden the gain spectrum, as for collinear and nearly-collinear degenerate OPA [11]. However, that the phase mismatch should not be too large for a saturated amplifier, because the achievable pump depletion is also limited by the ratio (Δk/γ).…”

Section: Phase-matching and Parametric Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These include work based on periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) [8][9][10][11][12], birefringent phase-matching (BPM) [13][14][15], and aperiodic PPLN (APPLN; also referred to as chirped QPM devices) [16][17][18]. This latter approach is attractive because it allows broadband phase-matching despite the material's dispersion and damage threshold.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since the relative change in period is small, fabricating a grating whose period smoothly varies between these periods is possible with comparable lithographic poling procedures as used for PPLN devices. This property also means that APPLN devices are well suited for mid-IR seed generation via DFG [11,19].…”

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Mid-infrared pulse generation via achromatic quasi-phase-matched OPCPA

Mayer¹,

Phillips²,

Gallmann³

et al. 2014

Opt. Express

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Abstract:We demonstrate a new regime for mid-infrared optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) based on achromatic quasi-phase-matching. Our midinfrared OPCPA system is based on collinear aperiodically poled lithium niobate (APPLN) pre-amplifiers and a non-collinear PPLN power amplifier. The idler output has a bandwidth of 800 nm centered at 3.4 µm. After compression, we obtain a pulse duration of 44.2 fs and a pulse energy of 21.8 µJ at a repetition rate of 50 kHz. We explain the wide applicability of the non-collinear QPM amplification scheme we used, including how it can enable octave-spanning OPCPA in a single device when combined with an aperiodic QPM grating.

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“…[8][9][10][11]. The small noncollinearity in such systems only has a minor influence on the phase-matching properties, unlike the approach we use here.…”

Section: Phase-matching and Parametric Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Phase-matching and Parametric Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mid-infrared pulse generation via achromatic quasi-phase-matched OPCPA

Mayer¹,

Phillips²,

Gallmann³

et al. 2014

Opt. Express

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“…Few-cycle pulses, ranging from near-infrared (NIR) to Mid-IR, have been successfully generated from QPM-OPA schemes using crystals such as PPLN, PPSLT, and PPKTP, etc. [79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ultrafast Mid-IR Laser Pulses Generation via Chirp Manipulated Optical Parametric Amplification

et al. 2018

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Abstract:Over the past decades, optical parametric amplification (OPA) has become one of the most promising sources of ultrafast Mid-IR laser, owing to its outstanding properties including ultrabroad bandwidth, superior tunability, good beam quality, and scalable energy. In this paper, we review the recent progress in ultrashort laser pulse generation via chirp manipulated OPA, which improves the energy scalability and gain bandwidth by strategically chirping both pump and seed pulses. The gain mechanism is theoretically analyzed and the OPA processes are numerically simulated. In addition, the concept is verified experimentally. Femtosecond pulses with hundreds of mJ are generated in a high energy dual-chirped-OPA (DC-OPA), and ultrabroadband µJ-level spectra supporting sub-2-cycle pulse durations are achieved in BBP-OPA. Furthermore, the obtained pulses show excellent tunability through the NIR to Mid-IR regions, which makes them a suitable seeding source for further amplification as well as powerful tools in various applications such as strong field physics, attosecond science, and ultrafast spectroscopy.

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Spatiotemporal Evolution of Intense Short Gaussian Laser Pulses in Weakly Relativistic Magnetized Plasma

Olumi

Maraghechi

2016

Contrib. Plasma Phys.

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Key words High-intensity lasers, ultra-short pulses, relativistic nonlinearity, self-focusing in plasma, selfcompression in plasma.The weakly relativistic regime of propagation of a short and intense laser pulse in the magnetized plasma is investigated. By considering relativistic nonlinearity and using non-linear Schrödinger equation with paraxial approximation, two second-order coupled differential equations are obtained for the longitudinal pulse width parameter (in time) and for the transverse pulse width parameter (in space). The simultaneous evolution of spot size and length of a relativistic Gaussian laser pulse in a magnetized plasma can be calculated by the numerical solution of the equations. The effect of magnetic field is investigated. It is observed that in the presence of magnetic field both the self-compression and the self-focusing can be enhanced. Furthermore, the interplay between the longitudinal self-compression and the transverse self-focusing in a magnetized plasma is investigated.

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Carrier-envelope-phase-stable, 12 mJ, 15 cycle laser pulses at 21 μm

Cited by 153 publications

References 21 publications

Mid-infrared pulse generation via achromatic quasi-phase-matched OPCPA

Mid-infrared pulse generation via achromatic quasi-phase-matched OPCPA

Ultrafast Mid-IR Laser Pulses Generation via Chirp Manipulated Optical Parametric Amplification

Spatiotemporal Evolution of Intense Short Gaussian Laser Pulses in Weakly Relativistic Magnetized Plasma

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