Strong bandwidth and efficiency improvement by passive pulse shaping in cavity-enhanced OPCPA

An enhancement cavity can optimally reshape the small-signal gain across the interacting pulses of a chirped-pulse parametric amplifier, increasing the gain bandwidth dramatically while simultaneously boosting the conversion efficiency.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Siddiqui, Aleem M., Moses, Jeffrey, Hong, Kyung-Han, Kaertner, Franz X.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61656
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5041-5210
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8733-2555
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6465-9360
Description
Summary:An enhancement cavity can optimally reshape the small-signal gain across the interacting pulses of a chirped-pulse parametric amplifier, increasing the gain bandwidth dramatically while simultaneously boosting the conversion efficiency.