title: Compact fiber amplifier pumped OPCPA system delivering Gigawatt peak power 35 fs pulses.
abstract: We report on a compact Gigawatt peak power OPCPA system which is pumped by the second harmonic of an Yb-doped fiber amplifier and seeded by a cavity dumped Ti:Sapphire oscillator. Picosecond pump pulses for the OPCPA are generated by spectral filtering and directly amplified to 1 mJ pulse energy in several fiber amplifiers, without the need of chirped pulse amplification. Since no stretcher and compressor is required, the pump laser is very compact and easy to operate. The two stage optical parametric amplifier delivers 35 fs pulses with 53 microJ pulse energy and 1.1 GW peak power at 40 kHz repetition rate. Additionally, the scaling potential of this approach is discussed.
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: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gottschall
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Clausnitzer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Limpert
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tünnermann
mesh_terms: D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004735:Energy Transfer; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*