IPAC2014 - List of Authors (Xu, G.)

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TUPME045	Development of a High-Energy Short-pulse 5-μm Parametric Source for Dielectric Laser Acceleration	1460
	G. Xu, I. Jovanovic, S.F. Wandel Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
	A compact, high-peak-power 5-μm laser source with pulse duration of sub-100 fs has been designed and being constructed for pumping a dielectric photonic structure to produce an acceleration gradient of order GV/m in dielectric laser acceleration. Breakdown of dielectric structure induced by multiphoton ionization can be mitigated by adopting long wavelength driver laser. Since the dielectric structure scales with the laser wavelength, fabrication tolerances for dielectric structure are relaxed as well. The 5-μm laser source is based on two cascaded optical parametric amplifiers (OPA): a 2-μm BBO OPA with a mixed phase matching scheme is used as a pump source, and a type-I phase-matched ZGP OPA is designed to produce sub-mJ, <100 fs 5-μm laser pulses. The two-stage 2-μm OPA is pumped by a Ti:sapphire amplifier and produces pulse energy of ~2.2 mJ with a pulse duration of 42 fs (~6 optical cycles), and excellent pulse stability and beam quality. Preliminary result of ~50 μJ pulse energy at 5-μm is demonstrated by using single-stage ZGP OPA, and an improved two-stage OPA scheme for production of higher pulse energy at 5-μm is under development.
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Development of a High-Energy Short-pulse 5-μm Parametric Source for Dielectric Laser Acceleration

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G. Xu, I. Jovanovic, S.F. Wandel
Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

A compact, high-peak-power 5-μm laser source with pulse duration of sub-100 fs has been designed and being constructed for pumping a dielectric photonic structure to produce an acceleration gradient of order GV/m in dielectric laser acceleration. Breakdown of dielectric structure induced by multiphoton ionization can be mitigated by adopting long wavelength driver laser. Since the dielectric structure scales with the laser wavelength, fabrication tolerances for dielectric structure are relaxed as well. The 5-μm laser source is based on two cascaded optical parametric amplifiers (OPA): a 2-μm BBO OPA with a mixed phase matching scheme is used as a pump source, and a type-I phase-matched ZGP OPA is designed to produce sub-mJ, <100 fs 5-μm laser pulses. The two-stage 2-μm OPA is pumped by a Ti:sapphire amplifier and produces pulse energy of ~2.2 mJ with a pulse duration of 42 fs (~6 optical cycles), and excellent pulse stability and beam quality. Preliminary result of ~50 μJ pulse energy at 5-μm is demonstrated by using single-stage ZGP OPA, and an improved two-stage OPA scheme for production of higher pulse energy at 5-μm is under development.

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