• High Power Laser Science and Engineering
  • Vol. 2, Issue 4, 04000e30 (2014)
Peng Yuan1, Jingui Ma1, Yongzhi Wang2, Jing Wang1、*, Daolong Tang1, and and Liejia Qian1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory for Laser Plasma (Ministry of Education) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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    DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2014.36 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Peng Yuan, Jingui Ma, Yongzhi Wang, Jing Wang, Daolong Tang, and Liejia Qian. Pump phase transfer and its control in hybrid seeded optical parametric amplifiers[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2014, 2(4): 04000e30 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Due to the existence of spatial walk-off and/or group-velocity mismatch effects, pump-to-signal phase transfer becomes inevitable during parametric amplification. We experimentally demonstrate that in hybrid seeded optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) that include two OPA stages seeded by the signal and idler waves, respectively, the phase of the output signal can be restored to its initial value, although there are spatial and temporal phase fluctuations on the pump source. This method significantly relaxes the requirement for high pump beam quality, which is always very stringent in parametric amplification systems. With the introduction of this scheme into birefringent phase-matching OPAs or chirped-pulse OPAs, it should be promising to achieve intense femtosecond laser pulses that are close to the diffraction limit in space and ultra-high contrast in time, simultaneously.
    Peng Yuan, Jingui Ma, Yongzhi Wang, Jing Wang, Daolong Tang, and Liejia Qian. Pump phase transfer and its control in hybrid seeded optical parametric amplifiers[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2014, 2(4): 04000e30
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