Atomic phase shifts in mixed-glass, multi-petawatt laser systems

doi:10.1364/OE.19.020953

Atomic phase shifts in mixed-glass, multi-petawatt laser systems

Catalin V. Filip »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 21, pp. 20953-20959 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.020953

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The influence of the active gain medium on the spectral amplitude and phase of amplified, femtosecond pulses in a laser system is studied. Results from a case study of a 15-petawatt laser based on Nd-doped mixed glasses show that gain-induced atomic phase shifts will distort the pulses, reducing their peak power. It is also shown that a phase compensation solution is possible and the corresponding coefficients are calculated.

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(140.7090) Lasers and laser optics : Ultrafast lasers
(320.5520) Ultrafast optics : Pulse compression

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Ultrafast Optics

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Original Manuscript: August 9, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: September 5, 2011
Published: October 6, 2011

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Catalin V. Filip, "Atomic phase shifts in mixed-glass, multi-petawatt laser systems," Opt. Express 19, 20953-20959 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-21-20953

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[1] G. Mourou, T. Tajima, and S. Bulanov, “Optics in the relativistic regime,” Rev. Mod. Phys.78(2), 309–371 (2006). [CrossRef]

[2] D. Strickland and G. Mourou, “Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses,” Opt. Commun.56(3), 219–221 (1985). [CrossRef]

[3] C. Le Blanc, P. Curley, and F. Salin, “Gain-narrowing and gain-shifting of ultra-short pulses in Ti: sapphire amplifiers,” Opt. Commun.131(4-6), 391–398 (1996). [CrossRef]

[4] M. D. Perry, D. Pennington, B. C. Stuart, G. Tietbohl, J. A. Britten, C. Brown, S. Herman, B. Golick, M. Kartz, J. Miller, H. T. Powell, M. Vergino, and V. Yanovsky, “Petawatt laser pulses,” Opt. Lett.24(3), 160–162 (1999). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[5] F. Giambruno, C. Radier, and G. Chériaux, “Gain narrowing and spectral shifting control in Apollon-10P, petawatt hybrid CPA laser system,” in CLEO/Europe and EQEC 2009 Conference Digest, (Optical Society of America, 2009), paper CF_P23.

[6] A. Dubietis, G. Jonusauskas, and A. Piskarskas, “Powerful femtosecond pulse generation by chirped and stretched pulse parametric amplification in BBO crystal,” Opt. Commun.88(4-6), 437–440 (1992). [CrossRef]

[7] R. Danielius, A. Piskarskas, D. Podenas, and A. Varanavicius, “Broadband Nd:glass regenerative amplifier with combined active medium,” Opt. Commun.84(5-6), 343–345 (1991). [CrossRef]

[8] C. P. J. Barty, C. L. Gordon, and B. E. Lemoff, “Multiterawatt 30-fs Ti:sapphire laser system,” Opt. Lett.19(18), 1442–1444 (1994). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[9] E. W. Gaul, M. Martinez, J. Blakeney, A. Jochmann, M. Ringuette, D. Hammond, T. Borger, R. Escamilla, S. Douglas, W. Henderson, G. Dyer, A. Erlandson, R. Cross, J. Caird, C. Ebbers, and T. Ditmire, “Demonstration of a 1.1 petawatt laser based on a hybrid optical parametric chirped pulse amplification/mixed Nd:glass amplifier,” Appl. Opt.49(9), 1676–1681 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[10] E. A. Siegman, Lasers (University Science Books, 1986) p. 468.

[11] U. P. Oppenheim and M. Naftaly, “Observation of mode pulling in a CO2 laser,” Appl. Opt.23(5), 661–664 (1984). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] S. Backus, C. G. Durfee, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn, “High power ultrafast lasers,” Rev. Sci. Instrum.69(3), 1207–1223 (1998). [CrossRef]

[13] J. Squier, C. P. J. Barty, F. O. Salin, C. Le Blanc, and S. Kane, “Use of mismatched grating pairs in chirped-pulse amplification systems,” Appl. Opt.37(9), 1638–1641 (1998). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[14] B. Stuart, J. Bonlie, J. Britten, J. Caird, R. Cross, C. Ebbers, M. Eckart, A. Erlandson, W. Molander, A. Ng, P. Patel, and D. Price, “The Titan Laser at LLNL,” in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2006), paper JTuG3.

[15] S. E. Stokowski, R. A. Saroyan, and M. J. Weber, “Nd:doped laser glass spectroscopic and physical properties,” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Rep. M-095, 2nd revision, 1981.

[16] D. Hall, W. Hagen, and M. Weber, “Modeling broad-band and multiple-frequency energy extraction from glass laser amplifiers,” IEEE Quantum Electron.22(6), 793–796 (1986). [CrossRef]

[17] J. Itatani, J. Faure, M. Nantel, G. Mourou, and S. Watanabe, “Suppression of the amplified spontaneous emission in chirped-pulse-amplification lasers by clean high-energy seed-pulse injection,” Opt. Commun.148(1-3), 70–74 (1998). [CrossRef]

[18] L. Casperson and A. Yariv, “Pulse Propagation in a High-Gain Medium,” Phys. Rev. Lett.26(6), 293–295 (1971). [CrossRef]

[19] M. Brinkmann, J. Hayden, M. Letz, S. Reichel, C. Click, W. Mannstadt, B. Schreder, S. Wolff, S. Ritter, M. J. Davis, T. E. Bauer, H. Ren, Y.-H. Fan, S.-T. Wu, K. Bonrad, E. Krätzig, K. Buse, and R. A. Paquin, “Optical Materials and Their Properties,” in Springer handbook of lasers and optics, F. Trager ed. (Springer 2007), page 299.

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