| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 205, 2019
XXI International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena 2018 (UP 2018)
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| Article Number | 01008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Pulse Generation and Characterization | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920501008 | |
| Published online | 16 April 2019 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920501008
High-energy mid-infrared femtosecond pulses at 3.3 μm directly generated by dual-chirped optical parametric amplification
1 RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
2 Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba-ken 278-8510, Japan
* Corresponding author: ejtak@riken.jp
Published online: 16 April 2019
By employing a dual-chirped optical parametric amplification (DC-OPA) using MgO:LiNbO3 crystals, we generate 31 mJ mid-infrared (MIR) pulses at 3.3 um with a repetition rate of 10 Hz. After passing through a CaF2 bulk compressor which has 70% throughput efficiency, these MIR pulses are compressed to 70 fs (6.3 optical cycles), which is close to the transform-limited duration of 66 fs. Thus, the peak power is evaluated to be 0.3 TW. Our results present notable progress in the generation of high-energy MIR pulses and prove that DC-OPA is a superior method for efficiently generating MIR pulses with few-cycle duration and TW-class peak power.
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