Ultra-narrow-band gaseous iodine laser pumping all-stage OPCPA

0367055 - FZÚ 2012 US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Novák, Ondřej - Turčičová, Hana - Divoký, Martin - Smrž, Martin - Huynh, Jaroslav - Straka, Petr
Ultra-narrow-band gaseous iodine laser pumping all-stage OPCPA.
Ultrafast Optics UFO VIII. 8th International Conference on Ultrafast Optics. Monterey: LLNL, 2011, s. 156-157.
[Ultrafast Optics UFO VIII. International Conference on Ultrafast Optics /8./. Monterey (US), 26.09.2011-30.09.2011]
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA202/06/0814; GA MŠMT(CZ) LC528
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 228334 - LASERLAB-EUROPE; European Commission(XE) 506350 - LASERLAB-EUROPE
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100523
Keywords : OPCPA * iodine lasers * gas lasers * femtosecond laser pulses * terawatt laser pulses * petawatt laser pulses * KDP crystal
Subject RIV: BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers

A gaseous laser was used to pump an OPCPA system for the first time. A single-shot ultra-narrow-band iodine photodissociation laser pumped two broadband optical parametric amplifiers. Seed pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser were stretched from 12.5 fs to 250 ps, amplified by eight orders, and compressed to 27 fs at an output power of 0.5 TW. Broadband amplification in KDP was achieved at the central wavelength of 800 nm for the first time. The results turn out that a kilojoule iodine laser is suitable for generating PW laser pulses in a large aperture OPCPA system
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