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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995),
  • paper CThM3

Kilohertz Ti:sapphire amplifier using 10-fs seed pulses

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Abstract

The recent development of quartz-prism-controlled1,2 and mirror-dispersion-controlled3 (MDC) Ti:sapphire lasers has allowed the generation of optical pulses with durations of 10 fs. The typical output-pulse energy of these lasers is of the order of a few nanojoules. Since higher pulse energies are required for many applications, a number of schemes based on the concept of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) have been devised. Recent advances in CPA have resulted in the amplification of 30-fs optical pulses to beyond the terawatt level at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. 4,5 Gain narrowing and residual high-order dispersion due to an imperfect matching between the pulse stretcher and the compressor have been identified as the major performance-limiting effects.

© 1995 Optical Society of America

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