Design of a highly stable, high-conversion-efficiency, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system with good beam quality

Guardalben, M. J.; Keegan, J.; Waxer, L. J.; Bagnoud, V.; Begishev, I. A.; Puth, J.; Zuegel, J. D.

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“…New active media, such as Ytterbium doping [222,223] fiber lasers or OPCPA [224,225] open the way to compactness and new spectral regions, especially the infrared, which is nearer to the absorption region of many pollutants, such as VOCs, and where the eye-safety issues are easier to address. These more flexible systems should be easier to operate, opening the way to more routine use for implementing the applications currently under development, beyond the feasibility demonstration up to the precision and reliability of actual atmospheric measurements, for the routine production of relevant data.…”

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Physics and applications of atmospheric nonlinear optics and filamentation

2008

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Abstract:We review the properties and applications of ultrashort laser pulses in the atmosphere, with a particular focus on filamentation. Filamentation is a non-linear propagation regime specific of ultrashort and ultraintense laser pulses in the atmosphere. Typical applications include remote sensing of atmospheric gases and aerosols, lightning control, laserinduced spectroscopy, coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering, and the generation of sub-THz radiation. References and Links 1. P. L. Kelley, "Self-focusing of optical beams," Phys. Rev. Lett. 15, 1005-1008 (1965); Erratum in Phys.Rev. Lett. 16, 384 (1965) 2. G. A. Askar'yan, "The self-focusing effect," Sov. Phys. J. 16 680 (1974) 3. A. Braun, G. Korn, X. Liu, D. Du, J. Squier, G. Mourou, "Self-channeling of high-peak-power femtosecond laser pulses in air," Opt. Lett. 20, 73-75 (1995) 4. L. Roso-Franco, "Self-reflected wave insid a very dense saturable absorber," Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2149-2151 (1985) 5. R. R. Alfano, S. L. Shapiro, "Emission in the region 4000 to 7000 Å," Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 584-587 (1970) 6. R. R. Alfano, S. L. Shapiro, "Observation of self-phase modulation and small-scale filaments in crystals and glasses," Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 592-595 (1970) 7.R. R. Alfano, S. L. Shapiro, "Direct distortion of electric clouds of rare-gas atoms in intense electric fields," Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 1217Lett. 24, -1220Lett. 24, (1970. A. Brodeur, S. L. Chin, "Ultrafast white-light continuum generation and self-focusing in transparent condensed media," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 637-650 (1999) 9. Y. Shen, "The principles of nonlinear optics," John Wiley & Sons (1984) 10. G. Yang, Y. Shen, "Spectral broadening of ultrashort pulses in a nonlinear medium," Opt. Lett. 9, 510-512 (1984) 11. A. L. Gaeta, "Catastrophic collapse of ultrashort pulses, Phys. Rev. Lett." 84, 3582-3585 (2000) 12. K. Ranka, R. W. Schirmer, A. L. Gaeta, "Observation of pulse splitting in nonlinear dispersive media," Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3783-3786 (1996) 13. A. Proulx, A. Talebpour, S. Petit, S. L. Chin, "Fast pulsed electric field created from the self-generated filament of a femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser pulse in air," Opt. Commun. 174, 305-309 (2000) 14. S. Tzortzakis, M. A. Franco, Y.-B. André, A. Chiron, B. Lamouroux, B. S. Prade, A. Mysyrowicz, "Formation of a conducting channel in air by self-guided femtosecond laser pulses," Phys. Rev. E 60, R3505-R3507 (1999) 15. S. Tzortzakis, B. Prade, M. Franco, A. Mysyrowicz, "Time evolution of the plasma channel at the trail of a self-guided IR femtosecond laser pulse in air," Optics Commun. 181, 123-127 (2000) 16. H. Schillinger, R. Sauerbrey, "Electrical conductivity of long plasma channels in air generated by selfguided femtosecond laser pulses," Appl. Phys. B 68, 753-756 (1999) 17. D. Strickland, G. Mourou, "Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses," Opt. Commun. 56, 219-221 (1985) #89041 556-558 (1968). Note that the radius considered in the classical writing of Marburger's formula is the half-width at ...

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Physics and applications of atmospheric nonlinear optics and filamentation

2008

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“…No measurable superfluorescence background was observed, when blocking the signal beam in front of the 2 nd and 3 rd stages. To achieve stable output and low energy fluctuations the last two OPA stages were run in saturation [10]. The careful optimization of the pump intensity on the crystal, temporal stretching ratio between pump and seed and reusing the residual pump energy allowed reaching the high conversion efficiency.…”

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High efficiency, multi-mJ, sub 10 fs, optical parametric amplifier at 3 kHz

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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2012

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“…Eight parameters are necessary to calculate the induced spatial phase shift. For the incident beam, we define: the central wavelength (λ), the spectral bandwidth (Δλ, which has a Fourier-transform limited duration Δt), the linear chirp quantified by the quadratic spectral phase (φ (2) ), the energy (E) and the input diameter of the beam (d). The thickness (L), the nonlinear index coefficient (n 2 ) and the group velocity dispersion parameter (GVD) have to be known for the plate.…”

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“…A uniform spatial profile can improve population inversion in laser amplifiers, second or third harmonic generation and conversion efficiency in OPAs (optical parametric amplifiers) or OPCPAs (optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers) [2,3]. Flat-top beam profiles of femtosecond pulses also optimize the behaviour of temporal contrast filters based on cross-polarized wave generation, as recently demonstrated [4].…”

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