Ultrabroadband noncollinear optical parametric amplification with LBO crystal.
Ultrabroadband visible noncollinear optical parametric amplification (NOPA) was achieved in an LBO crystal, with a continuum seed pulse generated from a sapphire plate. The spectral bandwidth of the amplified visible pulse was about 200 nm, which can support sub-5 fs pulse amplification. An amplified output of 0.21 microJ with an average gain of about 210 was achieved. This provides, to the best of our knowledge, the first-time demonstration of such broadband amplification with a biaxial nonlinear optical crystal. Both the simulation and experimental results indicate that the LBO has a great potential as nonlinear medium in power amplifier for TW to PW noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (NOPCPA) systems.
Zhao
Baozhen
B
International Cooperative Research Project (ICORP), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan.
Jiang
Yongliang
Y
Sueda
Keiich
K
Miyanaga
Noriaki
N
Kobayashi
Takayoshi
T
D000537:Aluminum Oxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
D000537:Aluminum Oxide