Generation of carrier-envelope-phase-stable 2-cycle 740-uJ pulses at 2.1-um carrier wavelength

Citation:

Xun Gu, Marcus, Gilad , Deng, Yunpei , Metzger, Thomas , Teisset, Catherine , Ishii, Nobuhisa , Fuji, Takao , Baltuska, Andrius , Butkus, Rytis , Pervak, Volodymyr , Ishizuki, Hideki , Taira, Takunori , Kobayashi, Takayoshi , Kienberger, Reinhard , and Krausz, Ferenc . 2009. “Generation Of Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Stable 2-Cycle 740-Uj Pulses At 2.1-Um Carrier Wavelength”. Optics Express, 17, Pp. 62 - 69. http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-1-62.

Abstract:

We produce carrier-envelope-phase-stable 15.7-fs (2-cycle) 740-μJ pulses at the 2.1-μm carrier wavelength, from a three-stage optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier system, pumped by an optically synchronized 49-ps 11-mJ Nd:YLF laser. A novel seed pulse spectral shaping method is used to ascertain the true amplified seed energy and the parametric superfluorescence levels.