High-contrast Ultrabroadband Frontend Source for High Intensity Few-Cycle Lasers

Aurélie Jullien (1) , X. Chen (1, 2) , A. Ricci (1, 3) , Jean-Philippe Rousseau (1) , Rodrigo B. Lopez-Martens (1) , Patricia Ramirez (4) , Dimitris N. Papadopoulos (2, 4) , Alain Pellegrina (2, 4) , Frédéric Druon (4) , Patrick Georges (4)

1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
2 ILE - Institut de la Lumiére Extrême
3 Thales Optronique SA
4 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa

An ultrabroadband seed source for high-power, high-contrast OPCPA systems at 800 nm is presented. The source is based on post compression in a hollow-core fiber followed by crossed polarized waves (XPW) filtering and is capable of delivering 80µJ, 5fs, CEP-stable (0.3rad RMS) pulses with excellent spectral and temporal quality

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Aurélie Jullien, X. Chen, A. Ricci, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Rodrigo B. Lopez-Martens, et al.. High-contrast Ultrabroadband Frontend Source for High Intensity Few-Cycle Lasers. International Conference on Ultrahigh Intensity Laser, ICUIL 2010, Sep 2010, Waktins Glen, United States. ⟨hal-00621042⟩