Highly efficient optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification based on BiB sub(3O) sub(6) and beta -BaB sub(2O) sub(4) crystals at low pump intensity

Highly efficient optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification based on BiB sub(3O) sub(6) and beta -BaB sub(2O) sub(4) crystals at low pump intensity

We report a very high signal gain of 1.13 x 10[super]7 at a low pump intensity of 260 MW/cm[super]2 in a two-stage optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier (OPCPA), which is used as a pre-amplifier for a short-pulse front-end Nd: glass high-energy laser system. A signal energy of 0.17 nJ was ampli...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics communications 2011-05, Vol.284 (9), p.2341-2344
Hauptverfasser: Yun, In Ho, Hong, Sung-Ki, Kim, Hee Jin, Lim, Changhwan, Yoon, Choon Sup
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Sprache:eng
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Amplification
Crystals
Energy use
Gain
Lasers
Pumps
Repetition
Wavelengths
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Zusammenfassung:We report a very high signal gain of 1.13 x 10[super]7 at a low pump intensity of 260 MW/cm[super]2 in a two-stage optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier (OPCPA), which is used as a pre-amplifier for a short-pulse front-end Nd: glass high-energy laser system. A signal energy of 0.17 nJ was amplified to 2 mJ with a central wavelength of 1053 nm and a repetition rate of 10 Hz using the OPCPA with a 15 mm-long BBO crystal at optical parametric amplifier (OPA) stage 1 and a 12 mm-long BiBO crystal at OPA stage 2.
ISSN:0030-4018
DOI:10.1016/j.optcom.2011.01.027