Visualization of high-order dispersion for compression of few-cycle pulses
| Autor: | Wataru Kobayashi, Daniel Nürenberg, Richard Wallenstein, Thomas Hamann, Markus Lührmann, Johannes A. L'huillier, Jiaan Zheng, Helmut Zacharias |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Materials science
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) business.industry Amplifier General Engineering General Physics and Astronomy Filter (signal processing) Pulse (physics) Optics Interference (communication) Polarization mode dispersion business Dispersion (chemistry) Bandwidth-limited pulse Parametric statistics |
| Zdroj: | Applied Physics B. 116:549-560 |
| ISSN: | 1432-0649 0946-2171 |
| Popis: | We present a visually intuitive method for higher-order dispersion compensation based on multi-photon interpulse interference pulse scans. The dispersion values obtained from these scans are fed back as a correction to an acousto-optical programmable dispersive filter to compensate residual higher-order dispersions up to fifth order. This method is applied to the dispersion management of a non-collinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier. A grism-pair stretcher is designed based on a global dispersion balance which provides a large stretching factor and supports a spectral bandwidth of up to 320 nm. It is implemented in a two-stage three-pass non-collinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier and stretches 6-fs seed pulses to about 80 ps from 700 to 1,000 nm. The amplified pulses are compressed by material dispersion. Pulses of less than 10-fs duration with a pulse energy of 125 μJ are obtained at 20-kHz repetition rate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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