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Octave-spanning energy-scalable CEP-stabilized pulses from a dual-chirped noncollinear optical parametric amplifier

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A dual-chirped noncollinear optical parametric amplification scheme exploiting the unique dispersion properties of BiB3O6 (BiBO) crystal is proposed. Passively CEP-stabilized 2-μm pulses from a broadband pumped OPA are efficiently amplified via noncollinear phase-matching in a thin BiBO crystal, resulting in an octave-spanning spectrum that supports a transform limited duration of 10.1 fs. The proposed scheme shows excellent compressibility and high energy scalability for the output signal. Sub-two-cycle CEP-stable mid-IR pulse with energy exceeding 20 mJ can be expected, which is potentially a perfect driving source in attosecond and strong-field researches.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11574101, 11627809).

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  1. Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430205, China

    Zuofei Hong & Peixiang Lu

  2. School of Physics and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    S. Ali Rezvani, Qingbin Zhang & Peixiang Lu

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Hong, Z., Rezvani, S.A., Zhang, Q. et al. Octave-spanning energy-scalable CEP-stabilized pulses from a dual-chirped noncollinear optical parametric amplifier. Opt Quant Electron 49, 392 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-017-1209-y

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