Transform-limited pulses for chirped-pulse amplification systems utilizing an active feedback pulse shaping technique enabling five time increase in peak power

D Nguyen, MU Piracha, PJ Delfyett - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A fiber-based chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) system with an active feedback loop for
pulse shaping is experimentally demonstrated. A spectral processor is used in conjunction …

Controlling the influence of SPM in fiber-based chirped-pulse amplification systems by using an actively shaped parabolic spectrum

DN Schimpf, J Limpert, A Tünnermann - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We report on the experimental demonstration of the control of the influence of nonlinearity in
fiber-based chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) using active spectral amplitude shaping. By …

Fiber chirped-pulse amplification system emitting 3.8 GW peak power

T Eidam, J Rothhardt, F Stutzki, F Jansen, S Hädrich… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report on the experimental demonstration of a fiber chirped-pulse amplification system
capable of generating nearly transform-limited sub 500 fs pulses with 2.2 mJ pulse energy at …

Saturation control of an optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier

P Fischer, A Muschet, T Lang, R Salh, L Veisz - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) is a light amplification technique
that provides the combination of broad spectral gain bandwidth and large energy, directly …

Carrier-envelope-phase stabilized chirped-pulse amplification system scalable to higher pulse energies

M Kakehata, H Takada, Y Kobayashi, K Torizuka… - Optics …, 2004 - opg.optica.org
We have demonstrated a carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilized chirped-pulse
amplification (CPA) system employing a grating-based pulse stretcher and compressor and …

172-fs, 27-µJ, Yb-doped all-fiber-integrated chirped pulse amplification system based on parabolic evolution by passive spectral amplitude shaping

H Chang, Z Cheng, R Sun, Z Peng, M Yu, Y You… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Parabolic pulses with linear self-phase-modulation-induced frequency chirp are attractive in
ultrafast laser fiber amplification system for the functionality of nonlinearities suppression. In …

Analysis and optimization of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

IN Ross, P Matousek, GHC New, K Osvay - JOSA B, 2002 - opg.optica.org
Optical parametric amplification can give particularly high values for gain, gain bandwidth,
energy, efficiency, and wave-front quality. In combination with chirped pulse amplification, in …

Hybrid chirped-pulse amplification

I Jovanovic, CA Ebbers, CPJ Barty - Optics letters, 2002 - opg.optica.org
Conversion efficiency in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification is limited by
spatiotemporal characteristics of the pump pulse. We have demonstrated a novel hybrid …

Development of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers and their applications

N Ishii - 2006 - osti.gov
In this work, optical pulse amplification by parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA)
has been applied to the generation of high-energy, few-cycle optical pulses in the near …

Generation of terawatt pulses by use of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

IN Ross, JL Collier, P Matousek, CN Danson… - Applied Optics, 2000 - opg.optica.org
Optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers offer exciting prospects for generating new
extremes in power, intensity, and pulse duration. An experiment is described that was used …