Sub 25 fs pulses from solid-core nonlinear compression stage at 250 W of average power

doi:10.1364/OL.37.004407

Sub 25 fs pulses from solid-core nonlinear compression stage at 250 W of average power

Christoph Jocher, Tino Eidam, Steffen Hädrich, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann »View Author Affiliations

Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 21, pp. 4407-4409 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.004407

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We report on a highpower femtosecond fiber chirped-pulse amplification system with an excellent beam quality ( $M^{2} = 1.2$ ) operating at 250 MHz repetition rate. We demonstrate nonlinear compression in a solid-core photonic crystal fiber at unprecedented average power levels. By exploiting self-phase modulation with subsequent chirped-mirror compression we achieve pulse shortening by more than one order of magnitude to 23 fs pulses. The use of circular polarization allows higher than usual peak powers in the broadening fiber resulting in compressed 0.9 μJ pulse energy and a peak power of 34 MW at 250 W of average power ( $M^{2} = 1.3$ ). This system is well suited for driving cavity-enhanced high-repetition rate high-harmonic generation.

OCIS Codes
(140.3280) Lasers and laser optics : Laser amplifiers
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
(140.7090) Lasers and laser optics : Ultrafast lasers
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(140.3615) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, ytterbium

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Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

History
Original Manuscript: August 6, 2012
Revised Manuscript: September 12, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: September 17, 2012
Published: October 19, 2012

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Christoph Jocher, Tino Eidam, Steffen Hädrich, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann, "Sub 25 fs pulses from solid-core nonlinear compression stage at 250 W of average power," Opt. Lett. 37, 4407-4409 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-37-21-4407

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J. Kaster, I. Pupeza, T. Eidam, C. Jocher, E. Fill, J. Limpert, R. Holzwarth, B. Bernhardt, T. Udem, T. Hänsch, A. Tünnermann, and F. Krausz, “Towards MW average powers in ultrafast high-repetition-rate enhancement cavities,” presented at High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, February 16–18, 2011.

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[1] M. Ferray, A. L’Huillier, X. Li, L. Lomprk, G. Mainfray, and C. Manus, J. Phys. B 21, L31 (1988). [CrossRef]

[2] S. Mathias, M. Bauer, M. Aeschlimann, L. Miaja-Avila, H. Kapteyn, and M. Murnane, in Dynamics at Solid State Surface and Interfaces Vol. 1: Current Developments, U. Bovensiepen, H. Petek, and M. Wolf, eds. (Wiley-VCH, 2010).

[3] F. Krausz and M. Ivanov, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 163 (2009). [CrossRef]

[4] G. Lambert, T. Hara, D. Garzella, T. Tanikawa, M. Labat, B. Carre, H. Kitamura, T. Shintake, M. Bougeard, S. Inoue, Y. Tanaka, P. Salieres, H. Merdji, O. Chubar, O. Gobert, K. Tahara, and M. Couprie, Nat. Phys. 4, 296 (2008). [CrossRef]

[5] S. Hädrich, M. Krebs, J. Rothhardt, H. Carstens, S. Demmler, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, Opt. Express 19, 19374 (2011). [CrossRef]

[6] C. Gohle, T. Udem, M. Herrmann, J. Rauschenberger, R. Holzwarth, H. Schuessler, F. Krausz, and T. Hänsch, Nature 436, 234 (2005). [CrossRef]

[7] R. Jones, K. Moll, M. Thorpe, and J. Ye, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 193201 (2005). [CrossRef]

[8] I. Pupeza, T. Eidam, J. Rauschenberger, B. Bernhardt, A. Ozawa, E. Fill, A. Apolonski, T. Udem, J. Limpert, Z. Alahmed, A. Azzeer, A. Tünnermann, T. Hänsch, and F. Krausz, Opt. Lett. 35, 2052 (2010). [CrossRef]

[9] T. Allison, A. Cingöz, D. Yost, and J. Ye, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 183903 (2011). [CrossRef]

[10] M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, and O. Svelto, Appl. Phys. Lett. 68, 2793 (1996). [CrossRef]

[11] S. Hädrich, H. Carstens, J. Rothhardt, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, Opt. Express 19, 7546 (2011). [CrossRef]

[12] T. Eidam, F. Röser, O. Schmidt, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, Appl. Phys. B 92, 9 (2008). [CrossRef]

[13] I. Fedotov, A. Lanin, A. Voronin, A. Fedotov, A. Zheltikov, O. Egorova, S. Semjonov, A. Pryamikov, and E. Dianov, J. Mod. Opt. 57, 1867 (2010). [CrossRef]

[14] A. Smith, B. Do, G. Hadley, and R. Farrow, IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron. 15, 153 (2009). [CrossRef]

[15] T. Eidam, C. Wirth, C. Jauregui, F. Stutzki, F. Jansen, H. Otto, O. Schmidt, T. Schreiber, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, Opt. Express 19, 13218 (2011). [CrossRef]

[16] F. Jansen, F. Stutzki, H.-J. Otto, M. Baumgartl, C. Jauregui, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, Opt. Express 18, 26834 (2010). [CrossRef]

[17] fiberdesk www.fiberdesk.com .

[18] J. Kaster, I. Pupeza, T. Eidam, C. Jocher, E. Fill, J. Limpert, R. Holzwarth, B. Bernhardt, T. Udem, T. Hänsch, A. Tünnermann, and F. Krausz, “Towards MW average powers in ultrafast high-repetition-rate enhancement cavities,” presented at High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, February 16–18, 2011.

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