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90 GW peak power few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from an optical parametric amplifier
Giedrius Andriukaitis,T. Balčiūnas,Skirmantas Alisauskas,Audrius Pugžlys,Andrius Baltuška,Tenio Popmintchev,Ming-Chang Chen,Margaret M. Murnane,Henry C. Kapteyn +8 more
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A compact 20 Hz repetition-rate mid-IR OPCPA system operating at a central wavelength of 3900 nm with the tail-to-tail spectrum extending over 600 nm and delivering 8 mJ pulses that are compressed to 83 fs opens a range of unprecedented opportunities for tabletop ultrafast science.Abstract:
We demonstrate a compact 20 Hz repetition-rate mid-IR OPCPA system operating at a central wavelength of 3900 nm with the tail-to-tail spectrum extending over 600 nm and delivering 8 mJ pulses that are compressed to 83 fs (<7 optical cycles). Because of the long optical period (∼13 fs) and a high peak power, the system opens a range of unprecedented opportunities for tabletop ultrafast science and is particularly attractive as a driver for a highly efficient generation of ultrafast coherent x-ray continua for biomolecular and element specific imaging.read more
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3 μm Wavelength OPCPA for Soft X-ray Generation
Daniel Carlson,W. Hettel,Drew Morrill,Daniel M. B. Lesko,T. Wu,F. Yu,Scott A. Diddams,Henri Kapteyn,Margaret M. Murnane,Michael Hemmer +9 more
TL;DR: In this article , a robust 3µm wavelength OPCPA system with sub-mJ pulse energies at 1kHz repetition rate was presented, and the use of high pressure hollow core waveguides, both regular and anti-resonant, provided a pathway for phase-matched soft X-ray generation.
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Comparative study of an ultrafast, CEP-stable, dual-channel mid-IR OPCPA system
Szabolcs Tóth,Roland Flender,Balint Kiss,Máté Kurucz,Alexey V. Andrianov,Roland S. Nagymihaly,Ludovit Haizer,Eric Cormier,Karoly Osvay +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the performances of ultrafast, carrier-envelope-phase-stable (CEP), mid-IR optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) systems were compared in two different amplification schemes.
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Development of a high-power mid-IR parametric amplifier for multicolor driving of high harmonic generation
Tsuneto Kanai,Tadas Balciunas,Guangyu Fan,Edgar Kaksis,Giedrius Andriukaitis,Audrius Pugzlys,Andrius Baltuška +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a multicolour, high-peak-power mid-IR parametric amplifier with the base period corresponding to 3.1 µm and a combined pulse energy > 15 mJ was developed.
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Raman Generation of PS Pulses at λ= 3.9 μm in a Hollow-Core Revolver Fiber
Alexey V. Gladyshev,D. Dubrovskii,E.E. Zhuravleva,Alexey F. Kosolapov,Yuri Yatsenko,I. A. Bufetov +5 more
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Dispersive wave emission by mid-IR filaments in solids
Skirmantas Alisauskas,Daniil Kartashov,Audrius Pugzlys,D. Faccio,Aleksei M. Zheltikov,A. A. Voronin,Andrius Baltuška +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a new filamentation regime of mid-infrared femtosecond pulses in solids is investigated and efficient emission of dispersive waves without fundamental spectrum broadening and continuum generation is observed in this regime.
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