超快光学-第19章-放大讲课教案.pptVIP

The Amplification of Ultra-short Laser Pulses;Pulse energy vs. Repetition rate;Issues in Ultrafast Amplification and Their Solutions;Cavity Dumping;Cavity dumping: the Pockels cell;Amplification of Laser Pulses, in General;Single-pass Amplification Math;Single-pass Amplification Math;Frantz-Nodvick equation;Another problem with amplifying ultrashort laser pulses…;So we need many passes.;Two main amplification methods;;Regenerative amplifier geometries;Pulse intensities inside an amplifier can become so high that damage (or at least small-scale self-focusing) occurs. Solution: Expand the beam and  use large amplifier media. Okay, we did that. But that’s still not enough. Solution: Expand the pulse in time, too.;Chirped-Pulse Amplification;Stretching and compressing ultrashort pulses;A pulse stretcher;Alexandrite;Regenerative Chirped-Pulse Amplification at ~100 kHz rep rates with a cw pump;Regenerative chirped-pulse amplification with a kHz pulsed pump;Pump laser for ultrafast amplifiers;1 kHz;CPA is the basis of thousands of systems. It’s available commercially in numerous forms. It works! ;Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE);Gain Narrowing (and ASE);;Beating gain narrowing;Gain-Narrowing Conclusion;;Heat deposition causes lensing and small-scale self-focusing. These thermal aberrations increase the beam size and reduce the available intensity.;Low temperature minimizes lensing.;;;Contrast ratio;Major sources of poor contrast ;;Typical 3rd-order autocorrelation;A Pockels cell “Pulse Picker”;;Contrast improvement recipes;Multiple-stage multi-pass amplifiers;;Pump beam ;A 1-Joule Apparatus;Multi-Joule Systems;Lawrence Livermore National Labs High-Power Amplifiers;Even Higher Intensities!;What to do with such high intensities