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Compact, high-repetition-rate OPCPA system for high harmonic generation

Matyschok, Jan ; Binhammer, Thomas ; Lang, Tino ; Prochnow, Oliver ; Rausch, Stefan ; Rudawski, Piotr LU ; Harth, Anne LU ; Miranda, Miguel LU ; Guo, Chen LU and Lorek, Eleonora LU , et al. (2014) Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XIV 8972.
Abstract

A compact, high-repetition rate optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier system emitting CEP-stable, few-cycle pulses with 10 μJ of pulse energy is reported for the purpose of high-order harmonic generation. The system is seeded from a commercially available, CEP-stabilized Ti:sapphire oscillator, delivering an octave-spanning spectrum from 600-1200 nm. The oscillator output serves on the one hand as broadband signal for the parametric amplification process and on the other hand as narrowband seed for an Ytterbium-based fiber preamplifier with subsequent main amplifiers and frequency doubling. Broadband parametric amplification up to 17 μJ at 200 kHz repetition rate was achieved in two 5 mm BBO crystals using non-collinear phase... (More)

A compact, high-repetition rate optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier system emitting CEP-stable, few-cycle pulses with 10 μJ of pulse energy is reported for the purpose of high-order harmonic generation. The system is seeded from a commercially available, CEP-stabilized Ti:sapphire oscillator, delivering an octave-spanning spectrum from 600-1200 nm. The oscillator output serves on the one hand as broadband signal for the parametric amplification process and on the other hand as narrowband seed for an Ytterbium-based fiber preamplifier with subsequent main amplifiers and frequency doubling. Broadband parametric amplification up to 17 μJ at 200 kHz repetition rate was achieved in two 5 mm BBO crystals using non-collinear phase matching in the Poynting-vector-walk-off geometry. Efficient pulse compression down to 6.3 fs is achieved with chirped mirrors leading to a peak power exceeding 800 MW. We observed after warm-up time a stability of < 0.5 % rms over 100 min. Drifts of the CE-phase in the parametric amplifier part could be compensated by a slow feedback to the set point of the oscillator phase lock. The CEP stability was measured to be better than 80 mrad over 15 min (3 ms integration time). The experimentally observed output spectra and energies could be well reproduced by simulations of the parametric amplification process based on a (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear propagation code, providing important insight for future repetition rate scaling of OPCPA systems. The system is well-suited for attosecond science experiments which benefit from the high repetition rate. First results for high-order harmonic generation in argon will be presented.

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CEP-stable, Few-cycle, HHG, OPCPA, Parametric amplification
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Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics : Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XIV - Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XIV
volume
8972
article number
89720L
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SPIE
conference name
Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics: Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XIV
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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2014-02-02 - 2014-02-05
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  • scopus:84900520240
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9780819498854
DOI
10.1117/12.2035810
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English
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  abstract     = {{<p>A compact, high-repetition rate optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier system emitting CEP-stable, few-cycle pulses with 10 μJ of pulse energy is reported for the purpose of high-order harmonic generation. The system is seeded from a commercially available, CEP-stabilized Ti:sapphire oscillator, delivering an octave-spanning spectrum from 600-1200 nm. The oscillator output serves on the one hand as broadband signal for the parametric amplification process and on the other hand as narrowband seed for an Ytterbium-based fiber preamplifier with subsequent main amplifiers and frequency doubling. Broadband parametric amplification up to 17 μJ at 200 kHz repetition rate was achieved in two 5 mm BBO crystals using non-collinear phase matching in the Poynting-vector-walk-off geometry. Efficient pulse compression down to 6.3 fs is achieved with chirped mirrors leading to a peak power exceeding 800 MW. We observed after warm-up time a stability of &lt; 0.5 % rms over 100 min. Drifts of the CE-phase in the parametric amplifier part could be compensated by a slow feedback to the set point of the oscillator phase lock. The CEP stability was measured to be better than 80 mrad over 15 min (3 ms integration time). The experimentally observed output spectra and energies could be well reproduced by simulations of the parametric amplification process based on a (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear propagation code, providing important insight for future repetition rate scaling of OPCPA systems. The system is well-suited for attosecond science experiments which benefit from the high repetition rate. First results for high-order harmonic generation in argon will be presented.</p>}},
  author       = {{Matyschok, Jan and Binhammer, Thomas and Lang, Tino and Prochnow, Oliver and Rausch, Stefan and Rudawski, Piotr and Harth, Anne and Miranda, Miguel and Guo, Chen and Lorek, Eleonora and Mauritsson, Johan and Arnold, Cord L. and L'Huillier, Anne and Morgner, Uwe}},
  booktitle    = {{Frontiers in Ultrafast Optics : Biomedical, Scientific, and Industrial Applications XIV}},
  isbn         = {{9780819498854}},
  keywords     = {{CEP-stable; Few-cycle; HHG; OPCPA; Parametric amplification}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{01}},
  publisher    = {{SPIE}},
  title        = {{Compact, high-repetition-rate OPCPA system for high harmonic generation}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2035810}},
  doi          = {{10.1117/12.2035810}},
  volume       = {{8972}},
  year         = {{2014}},
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