Broadly tunable carrier envelope phase stable optical parametric amplifier pumped by a monolithic ytterbium fiber amplifier
- Fernandez, A.
- Zhu, L.
- Verhoef, A. J.
- D. sidorov Biryukov
- Pugzlys, A.
- Baltuska, A.
- Liao, K. H.
- Liu, C. H.
- Galvanauskas, A.
- Kane, S.
- Holzwarth, R.
- Ilday, F. O.
Publication date
October 2009
DOI Publisher
The Optical Society ISSN
0146-9592 Journal
Optics LettersAbstract
Cataloged from PDF version of article.In an effort to develop a robust and efficient front end for a chirped-pulse parametric amplification chain, we demonstrate a broadband difference-frequency converter driven by a monolithic femtosecond Yb-doped-fiber amplifier and emitting carrier-envelope-offset-free pulses with the energy of tens of nanojoules tunable in the wavelength range from 1200 nm to beyond 2 mu m. Next to providing these seed pulses, the system enables direct optical synchronization of Nd- and Yb-doped pump lasers for subsequent parametric amplification. (C) 2009 Optical Society of Americ
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