Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification

In this letter, we report the demonstration of terawatt (TW)-scale femtosecond vortex laser pulses based on noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) centered at 800 nm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental study of amplification for OPCPA-based vort...

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Main Authors:	Wangjun Pan, Xiaoyan Liang, Lianghong Yu, Aotian Wang, Jinfeng Li, Ruxin Li
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:	IEEE Photonics Journal
Subjects:	Vortex pulses optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification TW-scale ultrafast vortex pulses
Online Access:	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9090985/

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spelling	doaj-c54c3daad3b94ae2b3b9b43315184e2b2021-03-29T18:01:38ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552020-01-011231810.1109/JPHOT.2020.29936169090985Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse AmplificationWangjun Pan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7285-3104Xiaoyan Liang1Lianghong Yu2Aotian Wang3Jinfeng Li4Ruxin Li5Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser, Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser, Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser, Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser, Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser, Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser, Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaIn this letter, we report the demonstration of terawatt (TW)-scale femtosecond vortex laser pulses based on noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) centered at 800 nm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental study of amplification for OPCPA-based vortex pulses to achieve a powerful ultrafast (TW-scale) vortex pulse output. In this experiment, a 0.5-mJ broadband chirped vortex pulse was amplified to 47 mJ with a 15-mm-long LiB<sub>3</sub>O<sub>5</sub> crystal. The double-pass grating pair compressor with an efficiency of 65% maintained the beam vortex, and a pulse of width 30.1 fs was obtained, corresponding to a peak power of 1.02 TW. This laser can be used in studies on nonlinear optics and relativistic laser-plasma interactions, compact plasma-based accelerators, and light sources.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9090985/Vortex pulsesoptical parametric chirped-pulse amplificationTW-scale ultrafast vortex pulses
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author	Wangjun Pan Xiaoyan Liang Lianghong Yu Aotian Wang Jinfeng Li Ruxin Li
spellingShingle	Wangjun Pan Xiaoyan Liang Lianghong Yu Aotian Wang Jinfeng Li Ruxin Li Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification IEEE Photonics Journal Vortex pulses optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification TW-scale ultrafast vortex pulses
author_facet	Wangjun Pan Xiaoyan Liang Lianghong Yu Aotian Wang Jinfeng Li Ruxin Li
author_sort	Wangjun Pan
title	Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification
title_short	Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification
title_full	Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification
title_fullStr	Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification
title_full_unstemmed	Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification
title_sort	generation of terawatt-scale vortex pulses based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification
publisher	IEEE
series	IEEE Photonics Journal
issn	1943-0655
publishDate	2020-01-01
description	In this letter, we report the demonstration of terawatt (TW)-scale femtosecond vortex laser pulses based on noncollinear optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) centered at 800 nm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental study of amplification for OPCPA-based vortex pulses to achieve a powerful ultrafast (TW-scale) vortex pulse output. In this experiment, a 0.5-mJ broadband chirped vortex pulse was amplified to 47 mJ with a 15-mm-long LiB<sub>3</sub>O<sub>5</sub> crystal. The double-pass grating pair compressor with an efficiency of 65% maintained the beam vortex, and a pulse of width 30.1 fs was obtained, corresponding to a peak power of 1.02 TW. This laser can be used in studies on nonlinear optics and relativistic laser-plasma interactions, compact plasma-based accelerators, and light sources.
topic	Vortex pulses optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification TW-scale ultrafast vortex pulses
url	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9090985/
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Generation of Terawatt-Scale Vortex Pulses Based on Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification

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