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Highly coherent mid-infrared femtosecond pulses, tunable between 2.5 and 4.4 mum, and with an average energy and duration between 2.6 and 3.6 microm of 11 microJ and 200fs, respectively, have been produced by an optical parametric amplifier setup driven at 1kHz by a 400- microJ , 800-nm pulse from a Ti:sapphire amplifier. In this system, first tunable moderate-energy femtosecond pulses in the near infrared are produced by continuum amplification in beta -barium borate, and subsequently the near-infrared pulses are amplified and frequency mixed with 800-nm radiation in potassium titanyl phosphate to produce intense tunable mid-infrared pulses. The time-bandwidth product of the mid-infrared pulses is 0.28+/-0.02 over the whole high-energy tuning range. Experimental results are compared with numerical simulations and a simple model. 相似文献
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T.V. Andersen J. Thogersen S.R. Keiding J.J. Larsen 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2003,76(6):639-644
We demonstrate intracavity frequency doubling of a standard femtosecond Ti:sapphire oscillator. The cavity is extended with
a pair of focusing mirrors and a 0.5-mm-thick BBO crystal. We achieve a repetition rate of 50 MHz and simultaneously generate
22 mW of 55-fs pulses at 810 nm and 200 mW of 73-fs pulses at 405 nm, which corresponds to 4 nJ per pulse. We create a total
of 330-mW, 405-nm light when pumping the Ti:sapphire crystal with 5.7 W from an Ar-ion laser, corresponding to a conversion
efficiency of 5.7%. No saturation is found, which implies that higher outputs can be achieved with higher pump rates. Preliminary
results from the use of blue pulses as pump in an optical parametric amplifier seeded by pulses from a photonic crystal fiber
are presented.
Received: 27 January 2003 / Revised version: 27 March 2003 / Published online: 12 May 2003
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Ishii N Turi L Yakovlev VS Fuji T Krausz F Baltuska A Butkus R Veitas G Smilgevicius V Danielius R Piskarskas A 《Optics letters》2005,30(5):567-569
The concept of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification is applied to attain pulses with energies up to 8 mJ and a bandwidth of more than 100 THz. Stretched broadband seed pulses from a Ti:sapphire oscillator are amplified in a multistage noncollinear type I phase-matched beta-barium borate parametric amplifier by use of an independent picosecond laser with lock-to-clock repetition rate synchronization. Partial compression of amplified pulses is demonstrated down to a 10-fs duration with a down-chirped pulse stretcher and a nearly lossless compressor comprising bulk material and positive-dispersion chirped mirrors. 相似文献
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We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, multikilohertz operation of a double-stage optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier with periodically poled stoichiometric LiTaO3 crystals, seeded by a homemade Cr:forsterite oscillator operating at 1235 nm. The repetition rate of the amplifier could easily be tuned without the use of electro-optic modulators by using a repetition-rate-tunable kilohertz pump laser operating at 532 nm and a time-synchronization unit. Amplified total (signal+idler) energies of 55.9 and 36.2 microJ were achieved at 1 and 5 kHz, respectively. After recompression, the pulse width of amplified idler pulses at 1235 nm amounted to 530 fs. 相似文献
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High-average-power kilohertz-repetition-rate sub-100-fs Ti:sapphire amplifier system 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
We report on a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser amplifier system that generates pulse energies >5 mJ at a 1-kHz repetition rate. The system consists of regenerative and multipass amplifiers and uses the technique of chirped-pulse amplification. When the system was seeded with 70-fs pulses at 800 nm from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillator, amplified pulses of 94-fs duration at a repetition rate of 1 kHz and an average output power of 5.4 W were produced. The amplified pulse-repetition rate is variable from 250 Hz to 3 kHz. Pulse energies of >7.5 mJ were obtained at 500 and 250 Hz. 相似文献
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Generation of deep-ultraviolet femtosecond pulses by four-wave mixing through filamentation in neon gas was demonstrated. Fundamental (omega) and second-harmonic (2omega) pulses of 25 fs Ti:sapphire amplifier output were focused into neon gas, and 20 microJ pulses with the center wavelength of 260 nm were produced by a four-wave mixing process, 2omega+2omega-omega?3omega through an ~15 cm filament. Additionally, pulses with an energy of 2 microJ at 200 nm were generated, probably by a cascaded process, 3omega+2omega-omega?4omega. The 260 nm pulses were compressed by a grating-based compressor and characterized by a dispersion-free transient grating frequency-resolved optical gating. The estimated pulse width was 12 fs. 相似文献
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Sub-20-fs pulses tunable across the visible from a blue-pumped single-pass noncollinear parametric converter 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Femtosecond pulses with center wavelengths between 470 and 750 nm are generated in a single-stage type I BBO optical parametric amplifier pumped by a frequency-doubled 1-kHz Ti:sapphire amplifier. A high-quality white-light continuum is used as the seed. Pulse durations as short as 16 fs and pulse energies of as much as 11 microJ are observed. The quantum efficiency is ~25% for both 7- and 40-microJ pump pulses. This unique combination of ultrashort pulse duration and high conversion is made possible by noncollinear phase matching that permits a sufficiently large amplification bandwidth. Simultaneously the group velocities of the signal and the idler are effectively matched. As a result widely tunable sub-20-fs pulses can be generated in a nonlinear crystal as thick as 2 mm. 相似文献
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Phase-stabilized 12-fs, 1-nJ pulses from a commercial Ti:sapphire oscillator are directly amplified in a chirped-pulse optical parametric amplifier and recompressed to yield near-transform-limited 17.3-fs pulses. The amplification process is demonstrated to be phase preserving and leads to 85-microJ, carrier-envelope-offset phase-locked pulses at 1 kHz for 0.9 mJ of pump, corresponding to a single-pass gain of 8.5 x 10(4). 相似文献
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Intense self-compressed, self-phase-stabilized few-cycle pulses at 2 microm from an optical filament
Hauri CP Lopez-Martens RB Blaga CI Schultz KD Cryan J Chirla R Colosimo P Doumy G March AM Roedig C Sistrunk E Tate J Wheeler J Dimauro LF Power EP 《Optics letters》2007,32(7):868-870
We report the compression of intense, carrier-envelope phase stable mid-IR pulses down to few-cycle duration using an optical filament. A filament in xenon gas is formed by using self-phase stabilized 330 microJ 55 fs pulses at 2 microm produced via difference-frequency generation in a Ti:sapphire-pumped optical parametric amplifier. The ultrabroadband 2 microm carrier-wavelength output is self-compressed below 3 optical cycles and has a 270 microJ pulse energy. The self-locked phase offset of the 2 microm difference-frequency field is preserved after filamentation. This is to our knowledge the first experimental realization of pulse compression in optical filaments at mid-IR wavelengths (lambda>0.8 microm). 相似文献
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Rotermund F Petrov V Noack F Pasiskevicius V Hellström J Laurell F 《Optics letters》1999,24(24):1874-1876
We report, for the first time to our knowledge, high-power femtosecond traveling-wave optical parametric amplification by use of periodically poled KTiOPO(4) . With a single pass through a 4-mm-long sample of 1.23-mm thickness we achieved 40% internal conversion efficiency and 5microJ of single-pulse idler energy near 3.8microm , using only 75microJ of energy from the output of a conventional 1-kHz Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier. The 210-fs-long idler pulses were almost transform limited. We discuss the specific problems encountered in high-power parametric conversion, such as unwanted quasi-phase-matched upconversion processes for polarization configurations that utilize the largest (d(33)) nonlinear coefficient and the related formation of color centers (gray tracking) in KTiOPO(4) . 相似文献
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A high-power (50-MW), kilohertz, picosecond, mid-IR optical parametric amplifier that is pumped by an amplified Ti:sapphire laser and also produces a fixed-frequency visible pulse is described. Mid-IR pulse energies of 40-55 microJ with 0.6-0.8-ps durations and 35-cm (-1) bandwidths are reported in the 3650- 2800-cm (-1) range. The combination of picosecond mid-IR and visible pulses is useful for two-color spectroscopies, which require simultaneous time and frequency resolution. To illustrate the above, we present vibrational relaxation data for the polyatomic molecule nitromethane, using time-resolved infrared Raman spectroscopy. 相似文献
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X. Zhou H. Lee T. Kanai S. Adachi S. Watanabe 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2007,89(4):559-563
We developed a noncollinear optical parametric/Ti:sapphire hybrid chirped pulse amplification system, which consists of a
two-pass optical parametric amplifier and multipass Ti:sapphire amplifiers with adaptive phase control. The use of the parametric
amplifier instead of a regenerative amplifier broadened the final spectrum significantly, resulting in 11-fs pulses with a
peak power of 18 GW at 5 kHz.
PACS 42.55.-f; 42.65.Re; 42.65.Yj 相似文献
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Generation of accurately synchronized pump source for optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
We demonstrate the generation of ultra-short pulses at 1064 nm by continuous-wave seeded non-collinear optical parametric amplification in a -barium borate crystal pumped by the second harmonics of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. After two stages of seeded parametric amplifiers, the generated pulses at 1064 nm were accurately synchronized with the fundamental pump pulses, which could be used as seeding pulses for further amplification and then frequency doubling to produce an accurately synchronized pump source for optical parametric amplification of chirped pulses from the same Ti:sapphire laser. PACS 42.65.Re; 42.65.-k; 52.35.Mw 相似文献
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J. Dostál H. Tur?i?ová B. Králikova L. Král J. Huynh 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2009,97(3):687-694
The hybrid iodine photodissociation laser SOFIA has been constructed. The pulse feeding the amplifier chain is the idler wave
of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) tuned to the atomic iodine transition at 1315 nm. This solid-state oscillator enables
ps-synchronization to other laser systems. A homemade automatic stabilization of the OPO idler wave as to wavelength and pointing
ensures long-term stable operation of the whole system. The active medium of the SOFIA amplifiers is a mixture of C3F7I and He. The SOFIA pulses are frequency-tripled in two KD*P crystals and then serve as the driver in a two-stage optical
parametric amplification scheme in which chirped broadband Ti:sapphire laser pulses are amplified (OPCPA). 相似文献
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Phase-stable parametric chirped-pulse amplification of ultrashort pulses from a carrier-envelope phase-stabilized mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillator (11.0 fs) to 0.25 mJ/pulse at 1 kHz is demonstrated. Compression with a grating compressor and a LCD shaper yields near-Fourier-limited 11.8-fs pulses with an energy of 0.12 mJ. The amplifier is pumped by 532-nm pulses from a synchronized mode-locked laser, Nd:YAG amplifier system. This approach is shown to be promising for the next generation of ultrafast amplifiers aimed at producing terawatt-level phase-controlled few-cycle laser pulses. 相似文献
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Kiriyama H Mori M Nakai Y Yamamoto Y Tanoue M Akutsu A Shimomura T Kondo S Kanazawa S Daido H Kimura T Miyanaga N 《Optics letters》2007,32(16):2315-2317
We describe a compact, reliable, high-power, and high-contrast noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier system. With a broadband Ti:sapphire oscillator and grating-based stretching and compression, the chirped pulses are amplified from 0.1 nJ to 122 mJ in type I beta-barium borate optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers with a total gain of over 10(9) at 10 Hz repetition rate. Pulse compression down to 19-fs duration achieved after amplification indicates a peak power of 3.2 TW at an average power of 0.62 W. The prepulse contrast is measured to be less than 10(-8) on picosecond time scales. 相似文献
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针对常规连续激光泵浦钛宝石激光振荡器不能自启动锁模的缺点,采用倍频飞秒光纤激光同步泵浦,通过调节振荡器腔长与泵浦腔长匹配,实现了飞秒钛宝石激光的自启动锁模。实验中采用3.4 W的倍频掺镱光纤激光同步泵浦钛宝石激光振荡器,获得了平均功率大于130 mW、重复频率75 MHz、光谱宽度大于47 nm、脉冲宽度17 fs的锁模脉冲输出,不仅能够稳定可靠地实现自启动锁模,解决了常规钛宝石激光振荡器锁模启动的困难,而且还具有同步输出1040,800,520 nm三束飞秒激光的特点,为进一步开展飞秒激光相干合成以及光参量放大等研究提供了优势基础。 相似文献
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We show efficient generation of mid-IR pulses tunable between 1 and 5?μm from 100?kHz class femtosecond systems. The concept can be applied to various sources, particularly based on Ti:sapphire and the newly evolving Yb+ lasers. The mid-IR pulses are generated as the idler of a collinear optical parametric amplifier pumped by the laser fundamental. The seed for this amplifier is the idler of a previous amplification stage pumped with the second harmonic and seeded with a visible continuum. This enhances the energy and allows us to influence the bandwidth of the final output. Pulses with microjoule energy and Fourier limits of 50?fs are achieved. 相似文献
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Nearly transform limited femtosecond pulses tunable between 2.56 and 3.16 m have been generated by optical parametric amplification. The single stage parametric amplifier is pumped by a tunable high power femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser system at 1 kHz repetition rate and seeded by quasi-continuous wave (cw) radiation from the Q-switched Nd:YLF laser used to pump the regenerative amplifier. The 100 fs idler pulses are shorter than the pump pulses. The mechanism of the achieved pulse compression is discussed and experimental results are compared with numerical simulations. 相似文献