Pump-noise transfer in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

Nicolas Forget; Arnaud Cotel; Erik Brambrink; Patrick Audebert; Catherine Le Blanc; Aurélie Jullien; Olivier Albert; Gilles Chériaux

doi:10.1364/OL.30.002921

Pump-noise transfer in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

Nicolas Forget
, Arnaud Cotel
, Erik Brambrink
, Patrick Audebert
, Catherine Le Blanc
, Aurélie Jullien
, Olivier Albert
, Gilles Chériaux

Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses
LULI
Laboratory d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, CNRS-École Polytechnique

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Abstract

We report on direct observation of temporal contrast degradation of short pulses amplified by optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification. We show that, despite injection seeding, quantum-noise-induced fast modulations (<50 ps) of the temporal profile of the pump pulse are imprinted on the spectrum of the amplified chirped pulse and give rise to a large picosecond pedestal in the time domain.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2921-2923
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	30
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.30.002921
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2005

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