High-power parametric amplification of 118-fs laser pulses with carrier-envelope phase control
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 30 (1) , 78-80
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.30.000078
Abstract
Phase-stable parametric chirped-pulse amplification of ultrashort pulses from a carrier-envelope phase-stabilized mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillator (11.0 fs) to 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.
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