title: 80 kHz repetition rate high power fiber amplifier flat-top pulse pumped OPCPA based on BIB3O6.
abstract: We present a high peak power optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA) seeded by a cavity dumped Ti:Sapphire oscillator. A frequency doubled high power Ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier is pumping the device. Temporal synchronization of the pump pulses is done via soliton generation in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. This soliton is fiber amplified and spectrally filtered in several fiber amplifiers. A simple birefringent pulse shaper generates a flat-top temporal pump pulse profile. Direct amplification of these pulses in large mode area fibers without using a stretcher and compressor provides significantly reduced complexity. For the first time to our knowledge broadband amplification around 800 nm central wavelength is demonstrated in BIB(3)O(6) (BIBO) crystals. The stretched Ti:Sapphire oscillator pulses are amplified up to a pulse energy of 25 microJ. Recompression with a grating compressor yields 50.7 fs pulses with 16.2 microJ pulse energy.
authors.affiliation: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Applied Physics, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745 Jena, Germany. rothhardt@iap.uni-jena.de
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rothhardt
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hädrich
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Limpert
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tünnermann
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity