High energy and average power femtosecond laser for driving mid-infrared optical parametric amplifiers

• Main Authors: Malevich, P., Andriukaitis, G., Flöry, T., Verhoef, A. J., Fernández, A., Ališauskas, S., Pugžlys, A., Baltuška, A., Tan, L. H., Chua, C. F., Phua, Poh Boon.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98109; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13313
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We have developed the first (to our knowledge) femtosecond Tm-fiber-laser-pumped Ho:YAG room-temperature chirped pulse amplifier system delivering scalable multimillijoule, multikilohertz pulses with a bandwidth exceeding 12 nm and average power of 15 W. The recompressed 530 fs pulses are suitable f...