Abstract
We demonstrate a four-stage optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system that delivers carrier-envelope phase-stable pulses with energies up to before recompression. The system is based on a fusion of femtosecond diode-pumped solid-state Yb technology and a picosecond Nd:YAG pump laser. Pulses with bandwidth are recompressed to a duration close to the transform limit. To show the way toward a terawatt-peak-power single-cycle IR source, we demonstrate self-compression of pulses down to duration in a single filament in argon with a output energy and 66% energy throughput.
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