[21a-221B-1~7] 4.3 Ultrafast Optics and Photonics

▲ [21a-221B-5] 2 gigawatt peak power source centered at 1940 nm from a diode-pumped ring cavity Tm:YAP regenerative amplifier

〇(P)Seyed Ali Rezvani¹, Makoto Suzuki², Pavel Malevich³, Clement Livache^1,4, Joan-Vincent de Montgolfier^1,4, Yutaka Nomura¹, Noriaki Tsurumachi², Andrius Baltuska³, Takao Fuji¹ (1.Inst. for Molecular Sci., 2.Fac. of Eng. Kagawa Univ., 3.Photonic inst. Vienna Univ. of Tech, 4.Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris)

Keywords:Solid-state lasers, ultrafast pulse generation, nonlinear interactions

In this work we present a new table-top design that solely based on Tm:YAP takes the capability of solid-state lasers centered around 2 μm, to 2 GW peak power after compression using a diode-pumped ring cavity regenerative amplifier. A supercontinuum has been generated in a YAG crystal using a small portion of the output which exhibits the potential application of the proposed system as a great candidate for MIR-OPA systems as a straightforward pumping source.