30 TW and 33 fs pulses delivered by a Ti:Sa amplifier system seeded with a frequency-doubled fiber laser

Simon Boivinet (1) , Alain Pellegrina (2) , Lucas Ranc (3, 2) , Thomas Morbieu (3, 2) , Sébastien Vidal (1) , Jean-Paul Yehouessi (1) , Philippe Morin (1) , Hugo Lecommandoux (1) , Kevin Robin (1) , Cyril Vinçont (1) , Christophe Pierre (1) , Michaël Berisset (1) , Guillaume Machinet (1) , Alexandre Loulier (1) , Johan Boullet (1) , Hervé Besaucele (2) , Benoit Beaurepaire (2) , Olivier Casagrande (2) , Christophe Simon-Boisson (2) , Sébastien Laux (2) , Sandrine Ricaud (2)

1 ALPhANOV
2 Thales LAS France
3 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Lasers

We report a full experimental comparison study on the injection of a Ti:Sa multi-terawatt amplifier chain with a standard 15 fs Ti:Sa oscillator and 35 fs frequency-doubled fiber oscillator. The study highlights that the Ti:Sa oscillator, with high performance in terms of pulse duration and spectral width, can be replaced by the frequency-doubled fiber oscillator to seed Ti:Sa amplifier chains almost without any compromise on the output pulse duration and picosecond contrast. Finally, we demonstrate for the first time to our knowledge a 30 TW and 33 fs Ti:Sa amplifier injected by a fiber oscillator.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Simon Boivinet, Alain Pellegrina, Lucas Ranc, Thomas Morbieu, Sébastien Vidal, et al.. 30 TW and 33 fs pulses delivered by a Ti:Sa amplifier system seeded with a frequency-doubled fiber laser. Applied optics, 2020, 59 (24), pp.7390-7395. ⟨10.1364/AO.401351⟩. ⟨hal-03349817⟩