Optical parametric amplification of mid-infrared femtosecond pulses using periodically-poled lithium niobate

Author(s):  
Takahiro Mochizuki ◽  
Shunsuke Yamamoto ◽  
Tsutomu Shimura ◽  
Kazuo Kuroda ◽  
Satoshi Ashihara
2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-150
Author(s):  
胡忞远 Hu Minyuan ◽  
梁晓燕 Liana Xiaoyan ◽  
赵宝真 Zhao Baozhen ◽  
李儒新 Li Ruxin ◽  
徐至展 Xu Zhizhan

2019 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 01008
Author(s):  
Yuxi Fu ◽  
Kotaro Nishimura ◽  
Bing Xue ◽  
Akira Suda ◽  
Katsumi Midorikawa ◽  
...  

By employing a dual-chirped optical parametric amplification (DC-OPA) using MgO:LiNbO3 crystals, we generate 31 mJ mid-infrared (MIR) pulses at 3.3 um with a repetition rate of 10 Hz. After passing through a CaF2 bulk compressor which has 70% throughput efficiency, these MIR pulses are compressed to 70 fs (6.3 optical cycles), which is close to the transform-limited duration of 66 fs. Thus, the peak power is evaluated to be 0.3 TW. Our results present notable progress in the generation of high-energy MIR pulses and prove that DC-OPA is a superior method for efficiently generating MIR pulses with few-cycle duration and TW-class peak power.


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