Flat‐Top Pumped Multi‐Millijoule Mid‐Infrared Parametric Chirped‐Pulse Amplifier at 10 kHz Repetition Rate

2021 ◽  
pp. 2000292
Author(s):  
Xiao Zou ◽  
Wenkai Li ◽  
Shizhen Qu ◽  
Kun Liu ◽  
Hao Li ◽  
...  
Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
Joana Alves ◽  
Hugo Pires ◽  
Celso P. João ◽  
Gonçalo Figueira

We present the design of an ultrafast optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA) operating at 3 µm yielding few-cycle pulses and multi-mJ output energy. This design demonstrates that with a configuration of a single crystal or combination of crystals (KTA and MgO:LN) it is possible to achieve output energies above the mJ with sufficient bandwidth to allow compression to just 5-optical cycles. Here, we consider a 1 µm mJ-level picosecond chirped pulse amplifier (CPA), a typical pumping source for this type of non-linear amplifiers. Compression with a simple bulk material enables reaching close to the pulse Fourier-transform limited duration, paving the way to high energy, ultrafast mid-infrared pulses.


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2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sanchez ◽  
M. Hemmer ◽  
M. Baudisch ◽  
S. L. Cousin ◽  
K. Zawilski ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hemmer ◽  
D. Sánchez ◽  
M. Jelínek ◽  
Vadim Smirnov ◽  
H. Jelinkova ◽  
...  

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