Sub-two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable, intense optical pulses at 16 μm from a BiB_3O_6optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier

Ishii, Nobuhisa; Kaneshima, Keisuke; Kitano, Koji; Kanai, Teruto; Watanabe, S.; Itatani, Jiro

doi:10.1364/ol.37.004182

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“…Likewise, the conversion efficiency stays at a constantly high level of B14% (red curve in Fig. 3b), which is higher than previously reported for IR OPCPAs 11,13 . Remarkably, no superfluorescence is observed when blocking the seed beam at maximum pump level.…”

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“…Second, the spherical mirror (M1) that focuses each colour into a radial spot in the FP can be replaced by a cylindrical mirror to increase the total amplification area by orders of magnitude. The key point is that by employing FOPA, the available aperture size of nonlinear crystals is no longer a limiting factor 13 as one can simply increase the number of (small aperture) crystals. Thus, we propose to implement FOPA to generate single-cycle multiterawatt laser pulses.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Frequency domain optical parametric amplification

Schmidt

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Lassonde

et al. 2015

2015 11th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

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Today's ultrafast lasers operate at the physical limits of optical materials to reach extreme performances. Amplification of single-cycle laser pulses with their corresponding octavespanning spectra still remains a formidable challenge since the universal dilemma of gain narrowing sets limits for both real level pumped amplifiers as well as parametric amplifiers. We demonstrate that employing parametric amplification in the frequency domain rather than in time domain opens up new design opportunities for ultrafast laser science, with the potential to generate single-cycle multi-terawatt pulses. Fundamental restrictions arising from phase mismatch and damage threshold of nonlinear laser crystals are not only circumvented but also exploited to produce a synergy between increased seed spectrum and increased pump energy. This concept was successfully demonstrated by generating carrier envelope phase stable, 1.43 mJ two-cycle pulses at 1.8 mm wavelength.

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Frequency domain optical parametric amplification

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Thiré

Lassonde

et al. 2015

2015 11th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

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“…Using signal and idler pulses centered at the same wavelength, phase-matching is realized to the first order and the pulses are amplified with an ultrabroad bandwidth. Degenerate OPA systems have been investigated in a number of previous works, and the possibility of producing degenerate few-cycle pulses has been confirmed theoretically and experimentally [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57].…”

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

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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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“…To enable few-cycles pulses with multi-mJ amplification, the Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) [9] and OPA techniques have been combined, leading to the Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification scheme (OPCPA, [10,11]). This method enables highpower amplification on the multi-mJ level [12], even for pulses shorter than three-cycles [13][14][15]. The pulses have to be stretched to the picosecond time duration and are then amplified using a pump of similar duration.…”

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25 TW, two-cycle IR laser pulses via frequency domain optical parametric amplification

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Sub-two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable, intense optical pulses at 16 μm from a BiB_3O_6optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier

Cited by 96 publications

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Frequency domain optical parametric amplification

Frequency domain optical parametric amplification

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

25 TW, two-cycle IR laser pulses via frequency domain optical parametric amplification

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