Generation of 18-fs, multiterawatt pulses by regenerative pulse shaping and chirped-pulse amplification
- 1 May 1996
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 21 (9), 668-670
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.21.000668
Abstract
Transform-limited, 18-fs pulses of 4.4-TW peak power are produced in a Ti:sapphire-based chirped-pulsed amplification system at a repetition rate of 50 Hz. 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 ~100 nm. Seed pulses are temporally stretched >100, 000 times before amplification.Keywords
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