Generation of 18-fs, multiterawatt pulses by regenerative pulse shaping and chirped-pulse amplification

被引:178
作者
Barty, CPJ
Guo, T
LeBlanc, C
Raksi, F
RosePetruck, C
Squier, J
Wilson, KR
Yakovlev, VV
Yamakawa, K
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[1] University of California, San Diego, Urey Hall, Mail Code 0339, San Diego
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D O I
10.1364/OL.21.000668
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Transform-limited, 18-fs pulses of 4.4-TW peak power are produced in a Ti:sapphire-based chirped-pulsed amplification system at a repetition rate of 50 Hz. Regenerative pulse shaping is used to control gain narrowing during amplification, and an optimized, quintic-phase-limited dispersion compensation scheme is used to control higher-order phase distortions over a bandwidth of similar to 100 nm. Seed pulses are temporally stretched >100, 000 times before amplification. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America
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页码:668 / 670
页数:3
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