Degenerated optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification with cesium lithium borate.
A gain amplifier for degenerated optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) with lithium triborate and cesium lithium borate (CLBO) crystals was demonstrated in a near-collinear configuration. The signal gain of the final energy amplifier with CLBO was approximately 6. After compression, the 123 fs pulse duration was obtained. Compared with potassium dihydrogen phosphate, it is confirmed that CLBO is more effective as a nonlinear crystal in a final power amplifier for terawatt or petawatt OPCPA systems. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of OPCPA with CLBO.
Zhao
Baozhen
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State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. zbzhen@mail.siom.ac.cn
Liang
Xiaoyan
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Leng
Yuxin
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Jiang
Yongliang
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Wang
Cheng
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Lu
Haihe
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Du
Juan
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Xu
Zhizhan
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Shen
Dezhong
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