Title
Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse-Amplification Contrast Enhancement By Regenerative Pump Spectral Filtering
Abstract
We demonstrate an approach to fundamentally improve the contrast of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers (OPCPA). The instantaneous parametric gain couples the temporal variations of the pump-pulse intensity to spectral variations of the intensity of the stretched signal pulse being amplified, which significantly degrade the temporal contrast of the amplified pulse after recompression. Simple and efficient pumpintensity noise reduction in an OPCPA system using a volume Bragg grating in a regenerative amplifier demonstrates contrast improvements up to 30 dB. ©2007 Optical Society of America.
Publication Date
8-15-2007
Publication Title
Optics Letters
Volume
32
Issue
16
Number of Pages
2378-2380
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.32.002378
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
39449103015 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/39449103015
STARS Citation
Dorrer, C.; Okishev, A. V.; Begishev, I. A.; Zuegel, J. D.; and Smirnov, V. I., "Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse-Amplification Contrast Enhancement By Regenerative Pump Spectral Filtering" (2007). Scopus Export 2000s. 6428.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/6428