Ultrashort-pulse, ultrahigh-peak-power Ti:sapphire lasers

Christopher P. P. Barty; Ting Guo; Catherine Le Blanc; Ferenc Raksi; Christoph G. Rose-Petruck; Jeffrey A. Squier; Kent R. Wilson; Vladislav V. Yakovlev; Koichi Yamakawa

doi:10.1117/12.239697

8 May 1996 Ultrashort-pulse, ultrahigh-peak-power Ti:sapphire lasers

Christopher P. P. Barty, Ting Guo, Catherine Le Blanc, Ferenc Raksi, Christoph G. Rose-Petruck, Jeffrey A. Squier, Kent R. Wilson, Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Koichi Yamakawa

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Proceedings Volume 2701, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.239697
Event: Photonics West '96, 1996, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Techniques for the production of multiterawatt, sub-20-fs, optical pulses via chirped pulse amplification are discussed. 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 approximately 100 nm. Transform-limited, 18-fs pulses of 4.4-TW peak power have been produced in a Ti:sapphire- based, chirped pulse amplification system at a repetition rate of 50 Hz. Extensions to shorter durations and peak powers approaching 100 TW are also described.

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Christopher P. P. Barty, Ting Guo, Catherine Le Blanc, Ferenc Raksi, Christoph G. Rose-Petruck, Jeffrey A. Squier, Kent R. Wilson, Vladislav V. Yakovlev, and Koichi Yamakawa "Ultrashort-pulse, ultrahigh-peak-power Ti:sapphire lasers", Proc. SPIE 2701, Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses III, (8 May 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.239697

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