Third-generation femtosecond technology

被引：310

作者：

Fattahi, Hanieh ^{[1
,2
]}

Barros, Helena G. ^{[2
]}

Gorjan, Martin ^{[1
,2
]}

Nubbemeyer, Thomas ^{[2
]}

Alsaif, Bidoor ^{[1
,3
]}

Teisset, Catherine Y. ^{[4
]}

Schultze, Marcel ^{[4
]}

Prinz, Stephan ^{[4
]}

Haefner, Matthias ^{[4
]}

Ueffing, Moritz ^{[2
]}

Alismail, Ayman ^{[2
,3
]}

Vamos, Lenard ^{[2
,5
]}

Schwarz, Alexander ^{[1
,2
]}

Pronin, Oleg ^{[2
]}

Brons, Jonathan ^{[2
]}

Geng, Xiao Tao ^{[1
,6
]}

Arisholm, Gunnar ^{[7
,8
]}

Ciappina, Marcelo ^{[1
]}

Yakovlev, Vladislav S. ^{[1
,2
]}

Kim, Dong-Eon ^{[6
]}

Azzeer, Abdallah M. ^{[3
]}

Karpowicz, Nicholas ^{[1
]}

Sutter, Dirk ^{[8
]}

Major, Zsuzsanna ^{[1
,2
]}

Metzger, Thomas ^{[4
,5
]}

Krausz, Ferenc ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Max Planck Inst Quantum Opt, D-85748 Garching, Germany

[2] Univ Munich, Dept Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany

[3] King Saud Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

[4] TRUMPF Sci Lasers GmbH Co KG, D-85774 Munich, Germany

[5] Wigner Res Ctr Phys, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary

[6] POSTECH, Dept Phys, Pohang 790784, Kyungbuk, South Korea

[7] FFI Norwegian Def Res Estab, NO-2027 Kjeller, Norway

[8] TRUMPF Laser GmbH Co KG, D-78713 Schramberg, Germany

来源：

OPTICA | 2014年 / 1卷 / 01期

关键词：

CHIRPED-PULSE-AMPLIFICATION; THIN-DISK LASER; HIGH-REPETITION-RATE; TI-SAPPHIRE AMPLIFIER; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKING; AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; FEW-CYCLE PULSES; OPTICAL PULSES; HIGH-ENERGY; KHZ;

D O I：

10.1364/OPTICA.1.000045

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Femtosecond pulse generation was pioneered four decades ago using mode-locked dye lasers, which dominated the field for the following 20 years. Dye lasers were then replaced with titanium-doped sapphire (Ti:Sa) lasers, which have had their own two-decade reign. Broadband optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) appeared on the horizon more than 20 years ago but have been lacking powerful, cost-effective picosecond pump sources for a long time. Diode-pumped ytterbium-doped solid-state lasers are about to change this state of affairs profoundly. They are able to deliver 1 ps scale pulses at kilowatt-scale average power levels, which, in thin-disk lasers, may come in combination with terawatt-scale peak powers. Broadband OPAs pumped by these sources hold promise for surpassing the performance of current femtosecond systems so dramatically as to justify referring to them as the next generation. Third-generation femtosecond technology (3FST) offers the potential for femtosecond light tunable over several octaves, multi-terawatt few-cycle pulses, and synthesized multi-octave light transients. Unique tunability, temporal confinement, and waveform variety in combination with unprecedented average powers will extend nonlinear optics and laser spectroscopy to previously inaccessible wavelength domains, ranging from the far IR to the x-ray regime. Here we review the underlying concepts, technologies, and proof-of-principle experiments. A conceptual design study of a prototypical tunable and wideband source demonstrates the potential of 3FST for pushing the frontiers of femtosecond and attosecond science. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America

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