High-energy infrared femtosecond pulses generated by dual-chirped optical parametric amplification
High-energy infrared femtosecond pulses generated by dual-chirped optical parametric amplification
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DOI:
10.1364/ol.40.005082
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发表时间:
2015-11-01
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3.6
通讯作者:
Midorikawa, Katsumi
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作者:
Fu, Yuxi;Takahashi, Eiji J.;Midorikawa, Katsumi
We demonstrate high-energy infrared femtosecond pulse generation by a dual-chirped optical parametric amplification (DC-OPA) scheme [Opt. Express 19, 7190 (2011)]. By employing a 100 mJ pump laser, a signal pulse energy exceeding 20 mJ at a wavelength of 1.4 mu m was achieved before dispersion compensation. A total output energy of 33 mJ was recorded. Under a further energy scaling condition, the signal pulse was compressed to an almost transform-limited duration of 27 fs using a fused silica prism compressor. Since the DC-OPA scheme is efficient and energy scalable, design parameters for obtaining 100 mJ level infrared pulses are presented, which are suitable as driver lasers for the energy scaling of high-order harmonic generation with sub-keV photon energy. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America