Femtosecond Ti:sapphire cryogenic amplifier with high gain and MHz repetition rate

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8864-8870

  Dantan, Aurélien ^a   Laurat, Julien ^a   Ourjoumtsev, Alexei ^a   Tualle Brouri, Rosa ^a   Grangier, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; MIRRORS; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CONTINUOUS PUMP LASER; CRYOGENIC AMPLIFIERS; REPETITION RATE;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34547192719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008864     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Principles and Experiments (Advanced Texts in Physics by Claude Rulliere, editor, 2nd edition, 2005).
2. S. Backus, C. G. Durfee III, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn, "High power ultrafast lasers," Rev. Sci. Instrum). 69, 1207-1223 (1998).
3. 3," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 3, 125-133 (1986).
4. 3," Opt. Lett. 16, 324-326 (1991).
5. C. P. J. Barty, T. Guo, C. Le Blanc, F. Rasky, C. Rose-Petruck, J. Squier, K. R. Wilson, V. V. Yakovlev, and K. Yamakawa, "Generation of 18-fs, multiterawatt pulses by regenerative pulse shaping and chirped-pulse amplification," Opt. Lett. 21, 668-670 (1996).
6. Y. Nabekawa, Y. Kuramoto, T. Togashi, T. Sekikawa, and S. Watanabe, "Generation of 0.66-TW pulses at 1 kHz by a Ti:sapphire laser," Opt. Lett. 23, 1384-1386 (1998).
7. J. Z. H. Yang and B. C. Walker, "0.09-terawatt pulses with a 31% efficient, kilohertz repetition-rate Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier," Opt. Lett. 26, 453-455 (2001).
8. R. Budkus, R. Danelius, A. Dubietis, A. Piskarskas, and A. Stabinis, "Progress in chirped pulse optical parametric amplifiers," Appl. Phys. B 79, 693-700 (2004).
9. D. M. Gaudiosi, A. L Lytle, P. Kohl, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, and S. Backus, "11-W average power Ti:sapphire amplifier system using downchirped pulse amplification," Opt. Lett. 29, 2665-2667 (2004).
10. I. Matsushima, H. Yashiro, and T. Tomie, "10 kHz 40W Ti:sapphire regenerative ring amplifier", Opt. Lett. 31, 2066-2068 (2006).
11. K. H. Hong, S. Kostritsa, T. J. Yu, J. H. Sung, I. W. Choi, Y.-C. Noh, D.-K. Ko, and J. Lee, "100-kHz high-power femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser based on downchirped regenerative amplification," Opt. Express 14, 970-972 (2006).
12. T. B. Norris, "Femtosecond pulse amplification at 250 kHz with a Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier and application to continuum generation," Opt. Lett. 17, 1009-1011 (1992).
13. Z. Liu, S. Izumida, S. Ono, H. Ohtake, and N. Sarukura, "High-repetition-rate, high-average-power, mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with an intracavity continuous-wave amplification scheme," Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 3622-3623 (1999).
14. Z. Liu, H. Murakami, T. Kozeki, H. Ohtake, and N. Sarukura, "High-gain, reflection-double pass, Ti:sapphire continuous-wave amplifier delivering 5.77 W average power, 82 MHz repetition rate, femtosecond pulses," Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 3182-3183 (2000).
15. R. Huber, F. Adler, A. Leitenstorfer, M. Beutter, P. Baum, and E. Riedle, "12-fs pulses from a continuous-wave-pumped 200-nJ Ti:sapphire amplifier at a variable repetition rate as high as 4 MHz," Opt. Lett. 28, 2118-2120 (2003).
16. M. Ramaswamy, M. Ulman, J. Paye, and J.J. Fujimoto, "Cavity-dumped femtosecond Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:A1203 laser," Opt. Lett. 18, 1822-1824 (1993).
17. M. S. Pshenichnikov, W. P. de Boej, and D. A. Wiersma, "Generation of 13-fs, 5-MW pulses from a cavity-dumped Tusapphire laser," Opt. Lett. 19, 572-574 (1994).
18. S. Schneider, A. Stockmann, and W. Schuesslbauer, "Self-starting mode-locked cavity-dumped femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser employing a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror," Opt. Express 6, 220-226 (2000).
19. J. Wenger, R. Tualle-Brouri, and P. Grangier, "Pulsed homodyne measurements of femtosecond squeezed pulses generated by single-pass parametric deamplification," Opt. Lett. 29, 1267-1269 (2004).
20. J. Wenger, A. Ourjoumtsev, R. Tualle-Brouri, and P. Grangier, "Time-resolved homodyne characterization of individual quadrature-entangled pulses," Eur. Phys. J. D 32, 391-393 (2005).
21. A. Ourjoumtsev, Tualle-Brouri, J. Laurat, P. Grangier, "Generating optical Schrödinger kittens for quantum information processing," Science 312, 83-86 (2006).
22. R. García-Patrón, J. Fiurášek, N.J. Cerf, J. Wenger, R. Tualle-Brouri, and P. Grangier, "Proposal for a loophole-free Bell test using homodyne detection," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130409-130412 (2004).
23. F. Salin, C. Le Blanc, J. Squier, and C. Barty, "Thermal eigenmode amplifiers for diffraction-limited amplification of ultrashort pulses," Opt. Lett. 23, 718-720 (1998).
24. M. Zavelani-Rossi, F. Lindner, C. Le Blanc, G. Chériaux, and J. P. Chambaret, "Control of thermal effects for high-intensity Ti:sapphire laser chains," Appl. Phys. B 70, S193-196 (2000).
25. M. Pittman, S. Ferré, J. P. Rousseau, L. Notebaert, J. P. Chambaret, and G. Chériaux, "Design and characterization of a near-diffraction-limited femtosecond 100-TW 10-Hz high-intensity laser system," Appl. Phys. B 74, 529-535 (2002).
26. A. C. DeFranzo and B. G. Pazol, "Index of refraction measurement on sapphire at low temperatures and visible wavelengths," Appl. Opt. 32, 2224-2234 (1993).
27. 3+-doped sapphire," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 584-586 (1993).
28. C. Byvick and A. Buoncristiani, "Analysis of vibronic transitions in titanium doped sapphire using the temperature of the fluorescence spectra," IEEE J. of Quant. Electron. 21, 1619-1624 (1985).
29. M. Delaigue, PhD dissertation, Université de Bordeaux (2006).
30. Y. Li, I. Duncan, and T. Morrow, "Absolute fluorescence quantum efficiency of titanium-doped sapphire at ambient temperature," J. of Lumin. 52, 275-276 (1992).