Parametric amplification and self-compression of ultrashort tunable pulses

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 230-237

  López Martens, Rodrigo ^a   Fournier, Stéphane ^a   Le Blanc, Catherine ^a   Baubeau, Emmanuel ^a   Salin, François ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical parametric amplifiers; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical pulse compression; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032026223     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686728     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. V. V. Yakovlev, B. Kohler, and K. R. Wilson, "Broadly tunable 30-fs pulses produced by optical parametric amplification," Opt. Lett., vol. 19, pp. 2000-2002, 1994.
2. K. R. Wilson and V. Yakovlev, "Ultrafast rainbow: Tunable ultrashort pulses from a solid-state kilohertz laser," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 14, pp. 444-448, 1997.
3. R. Danielus, A. Piskarskas, A. Stabinis, G. P. Banfi, P. Di Trapani, and R. Righini, "Traveling-wave parametric generation of widely tunable, highly coherent femtosecond light pulses," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 10, pp. 2222-2232, 1993.
4. P. Di Trapani, A. Andreoni, S. Solcia, P. Foggi, R. Danielus, A. Dubietis, and A. Pikarskas, "Matching of group velocities in three-wave parametric interaction with femtosecond pulses and application to traveling-wave generators," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 12, pp. 2237-2244, 1995.
5. R. Danielus, A. Piskarskas, P. Di Trapani, A. Andreoni, C. Solcia, and P. Foggi, "Matching of group velocities by spatial walk-off in collinear three-wave interaction wih tilted pulses," Opt. Lett., vol. 21, pp. 973-975, 1996.
6. T. Wilhelm, J. Piel, and E. Riedle, "Sub-20-fs pulses tunable across the visible from a blue-pumped single-pass noncollinear parametric converter," Opt. Lett., vol. 22, pp. 1494-1496, 1997.
7. G. Cerullo, M. Nisoli, and S. De Silvestri, "Generation of 11 fs pulses tunable across the visible by optical parametric amplification," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 71, pp. 3616-3618, 1997.
8. R. L. Byer and R. L. Herbst, in Nonlinear Infrared Generation, Y. R. Shen, Ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1977, p. 96.
9. G. Chériaux, P. Rousseau, F. Salin, J.-P. Chambaret, B. Walker, and L. F. Dimauro, "Aberration-free stretcher design for ultrashort pulse amplification," Opt. Lett., vol. 21, pp. 415-417, 1996.
10. S. Kane and J. Squier, "Fourth-order-dispersion limitations of aberration-free chirped-pulse amplification systems," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 14, pp. 1237-1244, 1997.
11. F. Salin, C. Le Blanc, C. Spielmann, J. Squier, V. V. Yakovlev, and C. P. J. Barty, "Kilohertz thermal eigenmode multipass amplifier for high-average-power chirped-pulse amplification," in Tech. Dig. SEr. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Washington DC: Opt. Soc. Amer., 1997, vol. 17, p. 11, paper CMC2.
12. V. Krylov, A. Rebane, O. Ollikainen, J. Gallus, U. Wild, and A. Kalintsev, "High-efficiency parametric amplification of weak femtosecond pulses in the visible spectral range," in Tech. Dig. SEr. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Washington DC: Opt. Soc. Amer., 1997, vol. 17, vol. 17, pp. 203-204, paper CWB8.
13. W. Joosen, H. J. Bakker, L. D. Noordam, H. G. Muller, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell, "Parametric generation in β-barium borate of intense femtosecond pulses near 800 nm," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. B, vol. 8, pp. 2537-2543, 1991.
14. D. Eimerl, L. Davis, S. Velsko, E. K. Graham, and A. Zalkin, "Optical, mechanical, and thermal properties of barium borate," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 62, pp. 1968-1983, 1987.
15. S. Fournier, R. López-Martens, C. Le Blanc, E. Baubeau, and F. Salin, "Soliton-like pulse shortening in a parametric amplifier," Opt. Lett., to be published.
16. M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, V. Magni, O. Svelto, R. Danielus, A. Piskarskas, G. Valiulis, and A. Varanavivicius, "Highly efficient parametric conversion of femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser pulses at 1-kHz," Opt. Lett., vol. 19, pp. 1973-1975, 1994.
17. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics. San Diego, CA: Academic, 1989, pp. 173-179.
18. J. A. Armstrong, N. Bloembergen, J. Ducuing, and P. S. Pershan, "Interactions between light waves in a nonlinear dielectric," Phys. Rev. vol. 127, pp. 1918-1938, 1962.
19. Y. R. Shen, The Principles of Nonlinear Optics. New York: Wiley, 1984, p. 47.
20. T. Brabec and F. Krausz, "Nonlinear optical pulse propagation in the single-cycle regime," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 78, pp. 3282-3285, 1997.
21. R. A. Fisher and W. K. Bischel, "Numerical studies of the interplay between self-phase modulation and dispersion for intense plane-wave laser pulses," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 46, pp. 4921-4934, 1975.
22. C. Y. Chien, G. Korn, J. S. Coe, J. Squier, and G. Mourou, and R. S. Craxton, "Highly efficient second-harmonic generation of ultraintense Nd:glass laser pulses," Opt. Lett., vol. 20, pp. 353-355, 1995.
23. F. Hache, A. Zéboulon, G. Gallot, and G. M. Gale, "Cascaded second-order effects in the femtosecond regime in β-barium borate: Self-compression in a visible femtosecond optical parametric oscillator," Opt. Lett., vol. 20, pp. 1556-1558, 1995.