Optical parametric chirped pulse amplification based on photonic crystal fibre

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/20/8/084208

Abstract A compact two-stage optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier based on photonic crystal fibre is demonstrated. A 1064-nm soliton pulse is obtained in a home-made photonic crystal fibre (PCF) with femtosecond pulse pumping and then amplified to 2 mJ in an Nd:YAG regenerative amplifier. After the amplified pulses pass through the LBO crystal, the 532-nm double-frequency light with an energy of 0.8 mJ and a duration of over 100 ps at 10-Hz repetition rate is generated as a pump source in the following two-stage optical parametric amplification (OPA). The 850-nm chirped signal light gain from the stretcher is 1.5 × 10⁴ in the first-stage OPA while it is 120 in the second-stage OPA. The total signal gain of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) can reach 1.8 × 10⁶.

Keywords: ultra-fast laser optical parametric amplification photonic crystal fibre

Received: 11 November 2010
Revised: 26 February 2011
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PACS:	42.79.-e	(Optical elements, devices, and systems)
	42.55.Wd	(Fiber lasers)
	42.65.Tg	(Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves)
	42.81.Wg	(Other fiber-optical devices)

Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2006CB806001 and 2011CB808101), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10734080, 60908008, and 60921004), the Fund of the State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology, China (Grant Nos. 07JC14055 and 09QA1406500), and the Scientific Research Foundation of Zhejiang University of Technology, China (Grant No. 109004129).

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Wang He-Lin(王河林)a), Yang Ai-Jun(杨爱军), Leng Yu-Xin(冷雨欣), Wang Cheng(王乘), Xu Zhi-Zhan(徐至展), and Hou Lan-Tian(候蓝田) Optical parametric chirped pulse amplification based on photonic crystal fibre 2011 Chin. Phys. B 20 084208

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