IPAC2013 - List of Authors (Zhang, W.Y.)

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TUPEA038	Pre-chirp Control Broadband Non-collinear Optical Parametric Amplifier for the Future Laser Weak-field Accelerator	1223
	L. Shen, C. Feng, L. Feng, D. Wang, H.F. Yao, W.Y. Zhang, Z.T. Zhao SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
	Ultra-short pulse has been proved to be a very useful tool for accelerating electron close to GeV now. But limited by gain narrowing effect, conventional CPA technology is quite hard to get less than 30fs at high energy level. Non-collinear optical parametric amplification (NOPA) looks more and more attractive for generating super-broadbandwidth pulses which is possible to be compressed to ultra-short pulses. Previous NOPAs, pumped by 400nm pulses, were using BBO crystals to reach shorter signal pulse durations. But the associated spectral bandwidths are still strongly linked with higher order nonlinear effects. which make it quite difficult to get higher energy with short pulse duration. Here we proposed to use pre-chirped few nm bandwidths around 515nm pumped pulses to amplify ultra-short pulses centered at 800nm. In our setup, we have found just one dramatical geometry configuration which support that we have possibility to get amplification from 720nm to 900nm, which will support to less than 10fs by well re-compression. This design is well adapted for BBO crystals. But the idea could be used also for other crystals.

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Pre-chirp Control Broadband Non-collinear Optical Parametric Amplifier for the Future Laser Weak-field Accelerator

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L. Shen, C. Feng, L. Feng, D. Wang, H.F. Yao, W.Y. Zhang, Z.T. Zhao
SINAP, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Ultra-short pulse has been proved to be a very useful tool for accelerating electron close to GeV now. But limited by gain narrowing effect, conventional CPA technology is quite hard to get less than 30fs at high energy level. Non-collinear optical parametric amplification (NOPA) looks more and more attractive for generating super-broadbandwidth pulses which is possible to be compressed to ultra-short pulses. Previous NOPAs, pumped by 400nm pulses, were using BBO crystals to reach shorter signal pulse durations. But the associated spectral bandwidths are still strongly linked with higher order nonlinear effects. which make it quite difficult to get higher energy with short pulse duration. Here we proposed to use pre-chirped few nm bandwidths around 515nm pumped pulses to amplify ultra-short pulses centered at 800nm. In our setup, we have found just one dramatical geometry configuration which support that we have possibility to get amplification from 720nm to 900nm, which will support to less than 10fs by well re-compression. This design is well adapted for BBO crystals. But the idea could be used also for other crystals.