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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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The Role of Nuclear Vibrational Motion in Molecular High Harmonic Generation in a Mid-Infrared Laser Field
TL;DR: In this article, isolated attosecond pulse (IAP) generation and driving wavelength effect of molecular high harmonic generation were investigated in the water window of molecules driven by a multi-cycle 2400nm mid-infrared laser field at SIOM.
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High power top hat pulses from an Yb MOPA for efficient OPA pumping
TL;DR: In this paper, a programmable acousto optic dispersion filter was used for inline phase-only pulse shaping in a 6mJ kHz DPSS Yb:CaF2 amplifier.
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Sub 100-fs, 5.2-$\mu$m ZGP Parametric Amplifier Driven by a ps Ho:YAG Chirped Pulse Amplifier and its application to high harmonic generation
Tsuneto Kanai,Pavel Malevich,Sarayoo Kangaparambil,Heinar Hoogland,Ronald Holzwarth,Audrius Pugžlys,Andrius Baltuška +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a 1 kHz repetition-rate mid-IR optical parametric amplifier (OPA) system operating at a central wavelength of 5.2 $m with the tail-to-tail spectrum extending over 1.5 $m and delivering 40 $J pulses that are compressed to 99 fs (5.6 optical cycles).
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Highly Efficient THz Generation by Mid-IR Pulses
Claudia Gollner,Anastasios D. Koulouklidis,Mostafa Shalaby,Corinne Brodeur,Vladimir Yu. Fedorov,Valentina Shumakova,Stelios Tzortakis,Andrius Baltuška,Audrius Pugžlys +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on THz generation driven by 3.9 µm pulses, via either optical rectification in organic crystals or in two-color plasma filaments, achieving an outstanding THz conversion efficiency of more than 2% and bandwidth exceeding 15 THz.
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Losses and intensity clamping during filamentation of mid-IR pulses in ambient air
Valentina Shumakova,Audrius Pugzlys,Skirmantas Alisauskas,Andrius Baltuška,A. A. Voronin,Aleksandr V. Mitrofanov,D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov,A. M. Zheltikov,Daniil Kartashov +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, different regimes of filamentation of multi-millijoule mid-infrared pulses in ambient air can be achieved by varying focusing conditions and chirp of the driving pulses.
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