40-μJ passively CEP-stable seed source for ytterbium-based high-energy optical waveform synthesizers

Hüseyin Çankaya*, Anne Laure Calendron, Chun Zhou, Shih Hsuan Chia, Oliver D. Mücke, Giovanni Cirmi, Franz X. Kärtner

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Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally for the first time a ∼40-μJ two-octave-wide passively carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stable parametric front-end for seeding an ytterbium (Yb)-pump-based, few-optical-cycle, high-energy optical parametric waveform synthesizer. The system includes a CEP-stable white-light continuum and two-channel optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers (OPCPAs) in the near- and mid-infrared spectral regions spanning altogether a two-octave-wide spectrum driven by a regenerative amplifier. The output pulses are compressed and fully characterized to demonstrate the well-behaved spectral phase of this seed source.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25169-25180
Number of pages12
JournalOptics Express
Volume24
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 31 Oct 2016

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