Sub-two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable, intense optical pulses at 1.6 μm from a BiB3O6 optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier

N Ishii; K Kaneshima; K Kitano; T Kanai; S Watanabe; J Itatani

doi:10.1364/OL.37.004182

Sub-two-cycle, carrier-envelope phase-stable, intense optical pulses at 1.6 μm from a BiB3O6 optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier

Opt Lett. 2012 Oct 15;37(20):4182-4. doi: 10.1364/OL.37.004182.

Authors

N Ishii¹, K Kaneshima, K Kitano, T Kanai, S Watanabe, J Itatani

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan. [email protected]‑tokyo.ac.jp

PMID: 23073404
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.004182

Abstract

We report on the generation of 9.0 fs, 550 μJ, carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stabilized optical pulses around 1.6 μm at 1 kHz. Few-cycle IR pulses are obtained from a BiB(3)O(6) optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier. The amplification of nearly octave-spanning ultrabroad pulses without spectral broadening results in good stability in output energy (0.85% rms) and CEP (160 mrad rms). We observed high harmonics in the water window from a neon cell that corresponds to a laser intensity of 4.1×10(14) W/cm(2).