High power burst-mode optical parametric amplifier with arbitrary pulse selection

Pergament, Mikhail; Kellert, Martin; Kruse, Kai; Wang, J.; Palmer, Guido; Wissmann, L.; Wegner, U.; Lederer, Max

doi:10.1364/oe.22.022202

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“…High‐power lasers can be also obtained using the Innoslab design, initially established for neodymium‐doped laser crystals, and now applied to ytterbium‐doped gain materials. An Innoslab amplifier delivering 1.9 mJ, 1.03 μm, 800 fs pulses at 188 kHz repetition rate has recently been applied to drive a two‐stage NOPA centered at 800 nm, and to generate 180 μJ, 15 fs pulses at a wavelength of 800 nm . In 2010, Hong et al .…”

Section: State Of the Art Of Coherent Pulse Synthesismentioning

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Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub-cycle optical waveforms

Manzoni

Mücke

Cirmi

et al. 2015

Laser & Photonics Reviews

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The generation of sub-optical-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable light pulses is one of the frontiers of ultrafast optics. The two key ingredients for sub-cycle pulse generation are bandwidths substantially exceeding one octave and accurate control of the spectral phase. These requirements are very challenging to satisfy with a single laser beam, and thus intense research activity is currently devoted to the coherent synthesis of pulses generated by separate sources. In this review we discuss the conceptual schemes and experimental tools that can be employed for the generation, amplification, control, and combination of separate light pulses. The main techniques for the spectrotemporal characterization of the synthesized fields are also described. We discuss recent implementations of coherent waveform synthesis: from the first demonstration of a single-cycle optical pulse by the addition of two pulse trains derived from a fiber laser, to the coherent combination of the outputs from optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers.

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Section: State Of the Art Of Coherent Pulse Synthesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub-cycle optical waveforms

Manzoni

Mücke

Cirmi

et al. 2015

Laser & Photonics Reviews

205

123

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“…A dedicated development has been initiated to meet the requirements of delivering 800 nm radiation, 10-100 fs pulse duration, 0.1-4.5 MHz selectable pulse delivery and 0.1-1 mJ pulse energy. After the successful completion of a first design phase [34] the implementation of three pump-probe burst-mode optical (PP) lasers systems was started, each serving one beam line area. The final amplification of the laser pulses employs the Non-collinear Optical Parametric Amplifier (NOPA) scheme.…”

Section: Optical Lasers For European Xfelmentioning

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Photon Beam Transport and Scientific Instruments at the European XFEL

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Featured Application: This article describes the layout of the European XFEL, a soft and hard X-ray free-electron laser user facility starting operation in 2017. Emphasis is put on the photon beam systems, scientific applications and the instrumentation of the scientific instruments of the European XFEL.Abstract: European XFEL is a free-electron laser (FEL) user facility providing soft and hard X-ray FEL radiation to initially six scientific instruments. Starting user operation in fall 2017 European XFEL will provide new research opportunities to users from science domains as diverse as physics, chemistry, geo-and planetary sciences, materials sciences or biology. The unique feature of European XFEL is the provision of high average brilliance in the soft and hard X-ray regime, combined with the pulse properties of FEL radiation of extreme peak intensities, femtosecond pulse duration and high degree of coherence. The high average brilliance is achieved through acceleration of up to 27,000 electron bunches per second by the super-conducting electron accelerator. Enabling the usage of this high average brilliance in user experiments is one of the major instrumentation drivers for European XFEL. The radiation generated by three FEL sources is distributed via long beam transport systems to the experiment hall where the scientific instruments are located side-by-side. The X-ray beam transport systems have been optimized to maintain the unique features of the FEL radiation which will be monitored using build-in photon diagnostics. The six scientific instruments are optimized for specific applications using soft or hard X-ray techniques and include integrated lasers, dedicated sample environment, large area high frame rate detector(s) and computing systems capable of processing large quantities of data.

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“…Other media with lower bandgap, such as undoped YAG or undoped KGW, allow the generation of stable WLC under these conditions [59,63]. In particular, for the 200-400 fs pulses typically generated by Yb:based systems, a 4-6 mm thick YAG plate allows the damage-free generation of a stable WLC [64]. The WLC generated in sapphire/YAG provides a very broadband seed; the duration of the OPA pulses will depend on the fraction of this broad bandwidth which can be amplified, i.e.…”

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Parametric generation of energetic short mid-infrared pulses for dielectric laser acceleration

Wandel

Yin

et al. 2014

J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.

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Optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) exploit second-order nonlinearity to transfer energy from a fixed frequency pump pulse to a variable frequency signal pulse, and represent an easy way of tuning over a broad range the frequency of an otherwise fixed femtosecond laser system. OPAs can also act as broadband amplifiers, transferring energy from a narrowband pump to a broadband signal and thus considerably shortening the duration of the pump pulse. Due to these unique properties, OPAs are nowadays ubiquitous in ultrafast laser laboratories, and are employed by many users, such as solid state physicists, atomic/molecular physicists, chemists and biologists, who are not experts in ultrafast optics. This tutorial paper aims at providing the non-specialist reader with a self-consistent guide to the physical foundations of OPAs, deriving the main equations describing their performance and discussing how they can be used to understand their most important working parameters (frequency tunability, bandwidth, pulse energy/repetition rate scalability, control over the carrier-envelope phase of the generated pulses). Based on this analysis, we derive practical design criteria for OPAs, showing how their performance depends on the type of the nonlinear interaction (crystal type, phase-matching configuration, crystal length), on the characteristics of the pump pulse (frequency, duration, energy, repetition rate) and on the OPA architecture.

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High power burst-mode optical parametric amplifier with arbitrary pulse selection

Cited by 26 publications

References 14 publications

Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub-cycle optical waveforms

Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub-cycle optical waveforms

Photon Beam Transport and Scientific Instruments at the European XFEL

Parametric generation of energetic short mid-infrared pulses for dielectric laser acceleration

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