Ultrashort pulse, ultrahigh peak power Ti:sapphire lasers Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Techniques for the production of multiterawatt, sub-20-fs, optical pulses via chirped pulse amplification are discussed. Regenerative pulse shaping is used to control gain narrowing during amplification and an optimized, quintic-phase-limited, dispersion compensation scheme is used to control higher order phase distortions over a bandwidth of approximately 100 nm. Transform-limited, 18-fs pulses of 4.4-TW peak power have been produced in a Ti:sapphire- based, chirped pulse amplification system at a repetition rate of 50 Hz. Extensions to shorter durations and peak powers approaching 100 TW are also described.

name of conference

  • Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses III

published proceedings

  • GENERATION, AMPLIFICATION, AND MEASUREMENT OF ULTRASHORT LASER PULSES III

author list (cited authors)

  • Barty, C., Guo, T., LeBlanc, C., Raksi, F., RosePetruck, C., Squier, J. A., ... Yamakawa, K.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Barty, CPJ||Guo, T||LeBlanc, C||Raksi, F||RosePetruck, C||Squier, JA||Wilson, KR||Yakovlev, VV||Yamakawa, K

editor list (cited editors)

  • White, W. E., & Reitze, D. H.

publication date

  • May 1996