Coherent pulse stacking amplification using low-finesse Gires-Tournois interferometers

被引：92

作者：

Zhou, Tong ^{[1
]}

Ruppe, John ^{[1
]}

Zhu, Cheng ^{[1
]}

Hu, I-Ning ^{[1
]}

Nees, John ^{[1
]}

Galvanauskas, Almantas ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Michigan, Ctr Ultrafast Opt Sci, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2015年 / 23卷 / 06期

关键词：

OPTICAL PULSES; SYSTEM; STABILIZATION; PHASE;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.23.007442

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate a new technique of coherent pulse stacking (CPS) amplification to overcome limits on achievable pulse energies from optical amplifiers. CPS uses reflecting resonators without active cavitydumpers to transform a sequence of phase- and amplitude-modulated optical pulses into a single output pulse. Experimental validation with a single reflecting resonator demonstrates a near-theoretical stacked peakpower enhancement factor of similar to 2.5 with 92% and 97.4% efficiency for amplified nanosecond and femtosecond pulses. We also show theoretically that large numbers of equal-amplitude pulses can be stacked using sequences of multiple reflecting resonators, thus providing a new path for generating very high-energy pulses from ultrashort pulse fiber amplifier systems. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：7442 / 7462

页数：21

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