Carrier-envelope-phase stabilized terawatt class laser at 1 kHz with a wavelength tunable option

Langdon, Benjamin; Garlick, Jonathan; Ren, Xiaoming; Wilson, Derrek J.; Summers, Adam M.; Zigo, Stefan; Kling, Matthias F.; Lei, Shuting; Elles, Christopher G.; Wells, Eric; Poliakoff, Erwin D.; Carnes, Kevin D.; Kumarappan, Vinod; Ben-Itzhak, Itzik; Trallero-Herrero, Carlos A.

doi:10.1364/OE.23.004563

Title: Carrier-envelope-phase stabilized terawatt class laser at 1 kHz with a wavelength tunable option

Journal Article · Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Optics Express

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.004563· OSTI ID:1188316

Langdon, Benjamin ^[1]; Garlick, Jonathan ^[2]; Ren, Xiaoming ^[3]; Wilson, Derrek J. ^[3]; Summers, Adam M. ^[3]; Zigo, Stefan ^[3]; Kling, Matthias F. ^[4]; Lei, Shuting ^[3]; Elles, Christopher G. ^[5]; Wells, Eric ^[6]; Poliakoff, Erwin D. ^[7]; Carnes, Kevin D. ^[3]; Kumarappan, Vinod ^[3]; Ben-Itzhak, Itzik ^[3]; Trallero-Herrero, Carlos A. ^[3]

Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Boulder, CO (United States); Crunch Technologies, Boulder, CO (United States)
Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Boulder, CO (United States)
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (United States)
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (United States); Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (Germany)
Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
Augustana College, Sioux Fall, SD (United States)
Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge LA (United States)

We demonstrate a chirped-pulse-amplified Ti:Sapphire laser system operating at 1 kHz, with 20 mJ pulse energy, 26 femtosecond pulse duration (0.77 terawatt), and excellent long term carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) stability. A new vibrational damping technique is implemented to significantly reduce vibrational noise on both the laser stretcher and compressor, thus enabling a single-shot CEP noise value of 250 mrad RMS over 1 hour and 300 mrad RMS over 9 hours. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the best long term CEP noise ever reported for any terawatt class laser. This laser is also used to pump a white-light-seeded optical parametric amplifier, producing 6 mJ of total energy in the signal and idler with 18 mJ of pumping energy. Due to preservation of the CEP in the white-light generated signal and passive CEP stability in the idler, this laser system promises synthesized laser pulses spanning multi-octaves of bandwidth at an unprecedented energy scale.

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Research Organization:: Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-86ER13491

OSTI ID:: 1188316

Journal Information:: Optics Express, Vol. 23, Issue 4; ISSN 1094-4087

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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