Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
Gaia Barbiero,
Haochuang Wang,
Martin Grassl,
Sebastian Groebmeyer,
Dziugas Kimbaras,
Marcel Neuhaus,
Vladimir Pervak,
Thomas Nubbemeyer,
Hanieh Fattahi, et al.
Optics Letters
46
(21)
5304-5307
(2021)
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We demonstrate an efficient hybrid-scheme for nonlinear pulse compression of high-power thin-disk oscillator pulses to the sub-10 fs regime. The output of a home-built, 16 MHz, 84 W, 220 fs Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator at 1030 nm is first compressed to 17 fs in two nonlinear multipass cells. In a third stage, based on multiple thin sapphire plates, further compression to 8.5 fs with 55 W output power and an overall optical efficiency of 65% is achieved. Ultrabroadband mid-infrared pulses covering the spectral range 2.4-8 μm were generated from these compressed pulses by intra-pulse difference frequency generation.
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Forschungsgruppe Hanieh Fattahi
Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts Staudtstr. 2 91058 Erlangen
