Generation of high-energy femtosecond laser pulses at 3.3 um by dual-chirped optical parametric amplification

Yuxi FU; Katsumi MIDORIKAWA; Eiji J. TAKAHASHI

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3 Optics and Photonics » 3.6 Ultrashort-pulse and high-intensity lasers

[6p-S45-1~22] 3.6 Ultrashort-pulse and high-intensity lasers

Wed. Sep 6, 2017 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM S45 (Conf. Room 6)

Atsushi Ishizawa(NTT), Nobuhisa Ishii(Univ. of Tokyo), Feng-Lei Hong(Yokohama National Univ.)

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

▲ [6p-S45-3] Generation of high-energy femtosecond laser pulses at 3.3 um by dual-chirped optical parametric amplification

〇Yuxi FU¹, Katsumi MIDORIKAWA¹, Eiji J. TAKAHASHI¹ (1.RIKEN)

Keywords:parametric amplification, infrared fs laser, energy scaling

By using a dual-chirped optical parametric amplification (DC-OPA) scheme, we successfully generate mid-infrared pulses at 3.3 um with pulse energy of 10 mJ and a transform-limited duration of 60 fs. Further energy-scaling to the TW-class is feasible.