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31 December 2013 Concepts, performance review, and prospects of table-top, few-cycle optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification
Andreas Vaupel, Nathan Bodnar, Benjamin Webb, Lawrence Shah, Martin C. Richardson
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Optical Engineering, Vol. 53, Issue 5, 051507 (December 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.53.5.051507
Abstract
More than 20 years after the first presentation of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA), the technology has matured as a powerful technique to produce high-intensity, few-cycle, and ultrashort laser pulses. The output characteristics of these systems cover a wide range of center wavelengths, pulse energies, and average powers. The current record performance of table-top, few-cycle OPCPA systems are 16 TW peak power and 22 W average power, which show that OPCPA is able to directly compete with Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification-based systems as source for intense optical pulses. Here, we review the concepts of OPCPA and present the current state-of-the art performance level for several systems reported in the literature. To date, the performance of these systems is most generally limited by the employed pump laser. Thus, we present a comprehensive review on the recent progress in high-energy, high-average-power, picosecond laser systems, which provide improved performance relative to OPCPA pump lasers employed to date. From here, the impact of these novel pump lasers on table-top, few-cycle OPCPA is detailed and the prospects for next-generation OPCPA systems are discussed.
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Andreas Vaupel, Nathan Bodnar, Benjamin Webb, Lawrence Shah, and Martin C. Richardson "Concepts, performance review, and prospects of table-top, few-cycle optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification," Optical Engineering 53(5), 051507 (31 December 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.53.5.051507
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KEYWORDS
Picosecond phenomena
Optical amplifiers
Crystals
Diode pumped solid state lasers
Pulsed laser operation
Optical fibers
Laser systems engineering
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