A spatially dispersive regenerative amplifier for ultrabroadband pulses

Jérôme Faure; Jiro Itatani; Subrat Biswal; Gilles Chériaux; Leah R. Bruner; Glen C. Templeton; Gérard Mourou

doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00606-3

A spatially dispersive regenerative amplifier for ultrabroadband pulses

Jérôme Faure
, Jiro Itatani
, Subrat Biswal
, Gilles Chériaux
, Leah R. Bruner
, Glen C. Templeton
, Gérard Mourou

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Abstract

We report for the first time the use of a spatially dispersive laser cavity as a regenerative amplifier of ultrashort pulses. By spatially dispersing the beam on a Ti:sapphire crystal and amplifying independently the wavelengths, we were able to overcome gain narrowing. An energy of 1.6 mJ was obtained with a spectrum of 81 nm at full width at half-maximum (FWHM). We discuss the different advantages of this technique and also theoretically investigate the possibility for intracavity dispersion compensation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	68-73
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	159
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00606-3
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1999
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Broadbandwidth amplification
Chirped-pulse amplification
Dispersion compensation
Gain narrowing
Ultrashort pulses

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A spatially dispersive regenerative amplifier for ultrabroadband pulses

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