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1. 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]
2. S. Witte, R. Th. Zinkstok, A. L. Wolf, W. Hogervorst, W. Ubachs, and K. S. E. Eikema, “A source of 2 terawatt, 2.7 cycle laser pulses based on noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification,” Opt. Express 14(18), 8168–8177 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
3. S. Adachi, N. Ishii, T. Kanai, A. Kosuge, J. Itatani, Y. Kobayashi, D. Yoshitomi, K. Torizuka, and S. Watanabe, “5-fs, Multi-mJ, CEP-locked parametric chirped-pulse amplifier pumped by a 450-nm source at 1 kHz,” Opt. Express 16(19), 14341–14352 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
4. D. Herrmann, L. Veisz, R. Tautz, F. Tavella, K. Schmid, V. Pervak, and F. Krausz, “Generation of sub-three-cycle, 16 TW light pulses by using noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification,” Opt. Lett. 34(16), 2459–2461 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
5. R. T. Zinkstok, S. Witte, W. Hogervorst, and K. S. Eikema, “High-power parametric amplification of 11.8-fs laser pulses with carrier-envelope phase control,” Opt. Lett. 30(1), 78–80 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
6. A. Baltuška, T. Fuji, and T. Kobayashi, “Controlling the carrier-envelope phase of ultrashort light pulses with optical parametric amplifiers,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 88(13), 133901 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
7. F. Tavella, A. Marcinkevičius, and F. Krausz, “Investigation of the superfluorescence and signal amplification in an ultrabroadband multiterawatt optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier system,” N. J. Phys. 8(10), 219 (2006). [CrossRef]
8. M. Bradler, P. Baum, and E. Riedle, “Femtosecond continuum generation in bulk laser host materials with sub-uJ pump pulses,” Appl. Phys. B 97(3), 561–574 (2009). [CrossRef]
9. G. Cerullo, M. Nisoli, and S. De Silvestri, “Generation of 11 fs pulses tunable across the visible by optical parametric amplification,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 71(25), 3616–3618 (1997). [CrossRef]
10. M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, and O. Svelto, “Generation of high energy 10 fs pulses by a new pulse compression technique,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 68(20), 2793–2795 (1996). [CrossRef]
11. M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, O. Svelto, R. Szipöcs, K. Ferencz, Ch. Spielmann, S. Sartania, and F. Krausz, “Compression of high-energy laser pulses below 5 fs,” Opt. Lett. 22(8), 522–524 (1997). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
12. A. M. Siddiqui, G. Cirmi, D. Brida, F. X. Kärtner, and G. Cerullo, “Generation of <7 fs pulses at 800 nm from a blue-pumped optical parametric amplifier at degeneracy,” Opt. Lett. 34(22), 3592–3594 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
13. C. Teisset, N. Ishii, T. Fuji, T. Metzger, S. Köhler, R. Holzwarth, A. Baltuška, A. Zheltikov, and F. Krausz, “Soliton-based pump-seed synchronization for few-cycle OPCPA,” Opt. Express 13(17), 6550–6557 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
14. A. Steinmann, A. Killi, G. Palmer, T. Binhammer, and U. Morgner, “Generation of few-cycle pulses directly from a MHz-NOPA,” Opt. Express 14(22), 10627–10630 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
15. M. Emons, A. Steinmann, T. Binhammer, G. Palmer, M. Schultze, and U. Morgner, “Sub-10-fs pulses from a MHz-NOPA with pulse energies of 0.4 microJ,” Opt. Express 18(2), 1191–1196 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
16. C. Schriever, S. Lochbrunner, P. Krok, and E. Riedle, “Tunable pulses from below 300 to 970 nm with durations down to 14 fs based on a 2 MHz ytterbium-doped fiber system,” Opt. Lett. 33(2), 192–194 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
17. J. Rothhardt, S. Hädrich, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, “80 kHz repetition rate high power fiber amplifier flat-top pulse pumped OPCPA based on BIB3O6.,” Opt. Express 17(4), 2508–2517 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
18. M. Schultze, T. Binhammer, G. Palmer, M. Emons, T. Lang, and U. Morgner, “Multi-μJ, CEP-stabilized, two-cycle pulses from an OPCPA system with up to 500 kHz repetition rate,” Opt. Express 18(26), 27291–27297 (2010). [CrossRef]
19. M. Schultze, T. Binhammer, A. Steinmann, G. Palmer, M. Emons, and U. Morgner, “Few-cycle OPCPA system at 143 kHz with more than 1 microJ of pulse energy,” Opt. Express 18(3), 2836–2841 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
20. F. Tavella, A. Willner, J. Rothhardt, S. Hädrich, E. Seise, S. Düsterer, T. Tschentscher, H. Schlarb, J. Feldhaus, J. Limpert, A. Tünnermann, and J. Rossbach, “Fiber-amplifier pumped high average power few-cycle pulse non-collinear OPCPA,” Opt. Express 18(5), 4689–4694 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
21. G. Andriukaitis, O. Mücke, A. Verhoef, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, D. Mikalauskas, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, “Fully Phase and Amplitude-Locked Multicolor Coherent Pulse Synthesis from a fs Yb:KGW-Driven IR-OPA,” in Advanced Solid-State Photonics, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper AWC8.
22. O. D. Mücke, D. Sidorov, P. Dombi, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, S. Alisauskas, V. Smilgevicius, J. Pocius, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and N. Forget, “Scalable Yb-MOPA-driven carrier-envelope phase-stable few-cycle parametric amplifier at 1.5 microm,” Opt. Lett. 34(2), 118–120 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
23. A. Fernández, L. Zhu, A. J. Verhoef, D. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, K. H. Liao, ChH. Liu, A. Galvanauskas, S. Kane, R. Holzwarth, and F. O. Ilday, “Broadly tunable carrier envelope phase stable optical parametric amplifier pumped by a monolithic ytterbium fiber amplifier,” Opt. Lett. 34(18), 2799–2801 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
24. A. P. Piskarskas, A. P. Stabinis, and V. Pyragaitė, “Ultrabroad bandwidth of optical parametric amplifiers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 46(7), 1031–1038 (2010). [CrossRef]
25. R. Danielius, A. Dubietis, and A. Piskarskas, “Transformation of pulse characteristics via cascaded second order effects in an optical parametric amplifier,” Opt. Commun. 133(1-6), 277–281 (1997). [CrossRef]
26. A. Varanavičius, A. Dubietis, A. Beržanskis, R. Danielius, and A. Piskarskas, “Near-degenerate cascaded four-wave mixing in an optical parametric amplifier,” Opt. Lett. 22(21), 1603–1605 (1997). [CrossRef]
27. N. Schimpf, J. Rothhardt, J. Limpert, A. Tünnermann, and D. C. Hanna, “Theoretical analysis of the gain bandwidth for noncollinear parametric amplification of ultrafast pulses,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(11), 2837–2846 (2007). [CrossRef]
28. A. Braun, J. V. Rudd, H. Cheng, G. Mourou, D. Kopf, I. D. Jung, K. J. Weingarten, and U. Keller, “Characterization of short-pulse oscillators by means of a high-dynamic-range autocorrelation measurement,” Opt. Lett. 20(18), 1889–1891 (1995). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
29. N. Forget, A. Cotel, E. Brambrink, P. Audebert, C. Le Blanc, A. Jullien, O. Albert, and G. Chériaux, “Pump-noise transfer in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification,” Opt. Lett. 30(21), 2921–2923 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
30. Ch. Liu, Zh. Wang, W. Li, Q. Zhang, H. Han, H. Teng, and Zh. Wei, “Contrast enhancement in a Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification laser system with a noncollinear femtosecond optical-parametric amplifier,” Opt. Lett. 35(18), 3096–3098 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
31. T. S. Sosnowski, P. B. Stephens, and T. B. Norris, “Production of 30-fs pulses tunable throughout the visible spectral region by a new technique in optical parametric amplification,” Opt. Lett. 21(2), 140–142 (1996). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
32. D. Herrmann, C. Homann, R. Tautz, M. Scharrer, P. St. J. Russell, F. Krausz, L. Veisz, and E. Riedle, “Approaching the full octave: noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification with two-color pumping,” Opt. Express 18(18), 18752–18762 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
33. V. Pyragaite, A. Stabinis, R. Butkus, R. Antipenkov, and A. Varanavicius, “Parametric amplification of chirped optical pulses under pump depletion,” Opt. Commun. 283(6), 1144–1151 (2010). [CrossRef]
34. S. Witte, R. T. Zinkstok, W. Hogervorst, and K. S. E. Eikema, “Numerical simulations for performance optimization of a few-cycle terawatt NOPCPA system,” Appl. Phys. B 87(4), 677–684 (2007). [CrossRef]
35. R. Antipenkov, A. Piskarskas, A. Varanavičius, and J. Adamonis, “Development of Sub-10-fs 30 mJ Compact OPCPA System Driven by fs Yb:KGW and ps Nd:YAG Tandem Pump,” presented at the 4th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 29 Aug.-3 Sept. 2010.

Appl. Phys. B

• M. Bradler, P. Baum, and E. Riedle, “Femtosecond continuum generation in bulk laser host materials with sub-uJ pump pulses,” Appl. Phys. B 97(3), 561–574 (2009). [CrossRef]
• S. Witte, R. T. Zinkstok, W. Hogervorst, and K. S. E. Eikema, “Numerical simulations for performance optimization of a few-cycle terawatt NOPCPA system,” Appl. Phys. B 87(4), 677–684 (2007). [CrossRef]

Appl. Phys. Lett.

• G. Cerullo, M. Nisoli, and S. De Silvestri, “Generation of 11 fs pulses tunable across the visible by optical parametric amplification,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 71(25), 3616–3618 (1997). [CrossRef]
• M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, and O. Svelto, “Generation of high energy 10 fs pulses by a new pulse compression technique,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 68(20), 2793–2795 (1996). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

• A. P. Piskarskas, A. P. Stabinis, and V. Pyragaitė, “Ultrabroad bandwidth of optical parametric amplifiers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 46(7), 1031–1038 (2010). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

• N. Schimpf, J. Rothhardt, J. Limpert, A. Tünnermann, and D. C. Hanna, “Theoretical analysis of the gain bandwidth for noncollinear parametric amplification of ultrafast pulses,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(11), 2837–2846 (2007). [CrossRef]

N. J. Phys.

• F. Tavella, A. Marcinkevičius, and F. Krausz, “Investigation of the superfluorescence and signal amplification in an ultrabroadband multiterawatt optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier system,” N. J. Phys. 8(10), 219 (2006). [CrossRef]

Opt. Commun.

• V. Pyragaite, A. Stabinis, R. Butkus, R. Antipenkov, and A. Varanavicius, “Parametric amplification of chirped optical pulses under pump depletion,” Opt. Commun. 283(6), 1144–1151 (2010). [CrossRef]
• R. Danielius, A. Dubietis, and A. Piskarskas, “Transformation of pulse characteristics via cascaded second order effects in an optical parametric amplifier,” Opt. Commun. 133(1-6), 277–281 (1997). [CrossRef]
• 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]

Opt. Express

• S. Witte, R. Th. Zinkstok, A. L. Wolf, W. Hogervorst, W. Ubachs, and K. S. E. Eikema, “A source of 2 terawatt, 2.7 cycle laser pulses based on noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification,” Opt. Express 14(18), 8168–8177 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• S. Adachi, N. Ishii, T. Kanai, A. Kosuge, J. Itatani, Y. Kobayashi, D. Yoshitomi, K. Torizuka, and S. Watanabe, “5-fs, Multi-mJ, CEP-locked parametric chirped-pulse amplifier pumped by a 450-nm source at 1 kHz,” Opt. Express 16(19), 14341–14352 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• C. Teisset, N. Ishii, T. Fuji, T. Metzger, S. Köhler, R. Holzwarth, A. Baltuška, A. Zheltikov, and F. Krausz, “Soliton-based pump-seed synchronization for few-cycle OPCPA,” Opt. Express 13(17), 6550–6557 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• A. Steinmann, A. Killi, G. Palmer, T. Binhammer, and U. Morgner, “Generation of few-cycle pulses directly from a MHz-NOPA,” Opt. Express 14(22), 10627–10630 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• M. Emons, A. Steinmann, T. Binhammer, G. Palmer, M. Schultze, and U. Morgner, “Sub-10-fs pulses from a MHz-NOPA with pulse energies of 0.4 microJ,” Opt. Express 18(2), 1191–1196 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• J. Rothhardt, S. Hädrich, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, “80 kHz repetition rate high power fiber amplifier flat-top pulse pumped OPCPA based on BIB3O6.,” Opt. Express 17(4), 2508–2517 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• M. Schultze, T. Binhammer, G. Palmer, M. Emons, T. Lang, and U. Morgner, “Multi-μJ, CEP-stabilized, two-cycle pulses from an OPCPA system with up to 500 kHz repetition rate,” Opt. Express 18(26), 27291–27297 (2010). [CrossRef]
• M. Schultze, T. Binhammer, A. Steinmann, G. Palmer, M. Emons, and U. Morgner, “Few-cycle OPCPA system at 143 kHz with more than 1 microJ of pulse energy,” Opt. Express 18(3), 2836–2841 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• F. Tavella, A. Willner, J. Rothhardt, S. Hädrich, E. Seise, S. Düsterer, T. Tschentscher, H. Schlarb, J. Feldhaus, J. Limpert, A. Tünnermann, and J. Rossbach, “Fiber-amplifier pumped high average power few-cycle pulse non-collinear OPCPA,” Opt. Express 18(5), 4689–4694 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• D. Herrmann, C. Homann, R. Tautz, M. Scharrer, P. St. J. Russell, F. Krausz, L. Veisz, and E. Riedle, “Approaching the full octave: noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification with two-color pumping,” Opt. Express 18(18), 18752–18762 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

• A. Varanavičius, A. Dubietis, A. Beržanskis, R. Danielius, and A. Piskarskas, “Near-degenerate cascaded four-wave mixing in an optical parametric amplifier,” Opt. Lett. 22(21), 1603–1605 (1997). [CrossRef]
• O. D. Mücke, D. Sidorov, P. Dombi, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, S. Alisauskas, V. Smilgevicius, J. Pocius, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, and N. Forget, “Scalable Yb-MOPA-driven carrier-envelope phase-stable few-cycle parametric amplifier at 1.5 microm,” Opt. Lett. 34(2), 118–120 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• A. Fernández, L. Zhu, A. J. Verhoef, D. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, K. H. Liao, ChH. Liu, A. Galvanauskas, S. Kane, R. Holzwarth, and F. O. Ilday, “Broadly tunable carrier envelope phase stable optical parametric amplifier pumped by a monolithic ytterbium fiber amplifier,” Opt. Lett. 34(18), 2799–2801 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• A. Braun, J. V. Rudd, H. Cheng, G. Mourou, D. Kopf, I. D. Jung, K. J. Weingarten, and U. Keller, “Characterization of short-pulse oscillators by means of a high-dynamic-range autocorrelation measurement,” Opt. Lett. 20(18), 1889–1891 (1995). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• N. Forget, A. Cotel, E. Brambrink, P. Audebert, C. Le Blanc, A. Jullien, O. Albert, and G. Chériaux, “Pump-noise transfer in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification,” Opt. Lett. 30(21), 2921–2923 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• Ch. Liu, Zh. Wang, W. Li, Q. Zhang, H. Han, H. Teng, and Zh. Wei, “Contrast enhancement in a Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification laser system with a noncollinear femtosecond optical-parametric amplifier,” Opt. Lett. 35(18), 3096–3098 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• T. S. Sosnowski, P. B. Stephens, and T. B. Norris, “Production of 30-fs pulses tunable throughout the visible spectral region by a new technique in optical parametric amplification,” Opt. Lett. 21(2), 140–142 (1996). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• C. Schriever, S. Lochbrunner, P. Krok, and E. Riedle, “Tunable pulses from below 300 to 970 nm with durations down to 14 fs based on a 2 MHz ytterbium-doped fiber system,” Opt. Lett. 33(2), 192–194 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• D. Herrmann, L. Veisz, R. Tautz, F. Tavella, K. Schmid, V. Pervak, and F. Krausz, “Generation of sub-three-cycle, 16 TW light pulses by using noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification,” Opt. Lett. 34(16), 2459–2461 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• R. T. Zinkstok, S. Witte, W. Hogervorst, and K. S. Eikema, “High-power parametric amplification of 11.8-fs laser pulses with carrier-envelope phase control,” Opt. Lett. 30(1), 78–80 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, O. Svelto, R. Szipöcs, K. Ferencz, Ch. Spielmann, S. Sartania, and F. Krausz, “Compression of high-energy laser pulses below 5 fs,” Opt. Lett. 22(8), 522–524 (1997). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• A. M. Siddiqui, G. Cirmi, D. Brida, F. X. Kärtner, and G. Cerullo, “Generation of <7 fs pulses at 800 nm from a blue-pumped optical parametric amplifier at degeneracy,” Opt. Lett. 34(22), 3592–3594 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

• A. Baltuška, T. Fuji, and T. Kobayashi, “Controlling the carrier-envelope phase of ultrashort light pulses with optical parametric amplifiers,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 88(13), 133901 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

• G. Andriukaitis, O. Mücke, A. Verhoef, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, D. Mikalauskas, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, “Fully Phase and Amplitude-Locked Multicolor Coherent Pulse Synthesis from a fs Yb:KGW-Driven IR-OPA,” in Advanced Solid-State Photonics, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2010), paper AWC8.
• R. Antipenkov, A. Piskarskas, A. Varanavičius, and J. Adamonis, “Development of Sub-10-fs 30 mJ Compact OPCPA System Driven by fs Yb:KGW and ps Nd:YAG Tandem Pump,” presented at the 4th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 29 Aug.-3 Sept. 2010.

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