title: Highly stable ultrabroadband mid-IR optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier optimized for superfluorescence suppression.
abstract: We present a 9 GW peak power, three-cycle, 2.2 microm optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification source with 1.5% rms energy and 150 mrad carrier envelope phase fluctuations. These characteristics, in addition to excellent beam, wavefront, and pulse quality, make the source suitable for long-wavelength-driven high-harmonic generation. High stability is achieved by careful optimization of superfluorescence suppression, enabling energy scaling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. j_moses@mit.edu
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authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moses
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authors.lastname: Huang
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authors.lastname: Hong
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authors.lastname: Mücke
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authors.lastname: Falcão-Filho
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authors.lastname: Benedick
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authors.lastname: Ilday
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authors.lastname: Dergachev
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authors.lastname: Bolger
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authors.lastname: Eggleton
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authors.lastname: Kärtner