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Dual-Chirped Optical Parametric Amplification for Generating High-Power Infrared Pulses

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Multiphoton Processes and Attosecond Physics

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We propose and calculate a novel OPA method for obtaining an ultrafast high-power infrared pulse source, called dual-chirped OPA (DC-OPA), based on a Ti:sapphire laser system in a collinear configuration. By chirping both pump and seed pulses in an optimized way, high-energy pump pulses can be utilized for a DC-OPA process without exceeding the damage threshold of BBO crystals, and broadband signal and idler pulses can be generated with a total conversion efficiency approaching 40%. Furthermore, the few-cycle idler pulses with a passively stabilized carrier-envelope phase (CEP) can be generated by the difference frequency generation (DFG) process.

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  1. RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Q. Zhang, E. J. Takahashi & K. Midorikawa

  2. School of Physics, Huazhong university of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Q. Zhang & P. Lu

  3. Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 27-387, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    O. D. Mücke

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Kaoru Yamanouchi

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Zhang, Q., Takahashi, E.J., Mücke, O.D., Lu, P., Midorikawa, K. (2012). Dual-Chirped Optical Parametric Amplification for Generating High-Power Infrared Pulses. In: Yamanouchi, K., Katsumi, M. (eds) Multiphoton Processes and Attosecond Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 125. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28948-4_6

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