mid-IR Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier
Features
- > 25 mJ @ 3900 nm
- > 60 mJ @ 1463 nm
- customizable Layout
- > 25 mJ @ 3900 nm
- > 60 mJ @ 1463 nm
- customizable Layout
Applications
- High harmonic generation
- Sensing
- Incoherent hard-x-ray generation in solid targets
- Particle acceleration
- THz Generation
- Filamentation in ambient air
- High harmonic generation
- Sensing
- Incoherent hard-x-ray generation in solid targets
- Particle acceleration
- THz Generation
- Filamentation in ambient air
Description
AmpLights KTA OPCPA is a hybrid optical chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) system built as an extension of our KTA-OPA pumped by millijoule-level femtosecond pulses. The OPCPA is driven by a Joule-level picosecond laser operating at 20 Hz repetition rate and produces unprecedentedly high energy mid-IR pulses with peak powers approaching 0.5 TW level. The latter is possible because of recently demonstrated selfcompression in transparent dielectrics. Implementation of dispersion management based on phase conjugation between the signal and idler pulses, enables amplification of near-IR signal pulses till the last OPCPA stage. This makes our mid-IR OPCPA system rather robust and handy with respect to the alignment.
Technical specifications
| Pump System: CYRA + Nd:YAG @ 20 Hz | ||||
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| Signal | Idler | |||
| Wavelength | 1463 nm | 3900 nm | ||
| Energy | > 60 mJ | > 25 mJ | ||
| Pulse Duration | < 100 ps | < 100 fs / 30 fs | ||
| Dimensions (W × L × H) |
60 × 220 × 30 cm3 (1 module) 60 × 120 × 30 cm3 (3 modules) |
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Images
3900nm OPCPA system with Lightconversion Pharos as seed system and mid-IR OPA
Data
Application Highlights:
Filamentation with and without optional nonlinear self-compression
Nonlinear self-compression in bulk material to 30 fs, 0.5 TW
