We demonstrate a noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier system that produces 7.6 fs pulses with a peak power of 2 terawatt at 30 Hz repetition rate. Using an ultra-broadband Ti:Sapphire seed oscillator and grating-based stretching and compression combined with an LCD phase-shaper, we amplify a 310 nm wide spectrum with a total gain of 3x10(7), and compress it within 5% of its F...

Non-collinear optical parametric amplification in potassium-titanyl phosphate (KTP) pumped with 800 nm pulses is reported. Broadband phase matching is achieved with non-collinear geometry and a slightly divergent signal seed. This enables a gain bandwidth up to approximately 2500 cm(-1) in near-IR region. Introducing a chirp into the pump pulse makes it possible to amplify the white light seed ...

We report soliton pulse formation and amplification and soliton-self-frequency shifting in an anomalously dispersive, Yb31-doped holey fiber amplifier seeded with pulses from an Yb31-doped, 1.06-mm fiber based modelocked oscillator. Our fiber-based system provides a highly practical, all-diode-pumped, continuously tunable femtosecond pulse source operational in the important and difficult to re...

The existence of efficient ion acceleration regimes in collective laser-plasma interactions opens up the possibility to develop high-energy physics facilities in conjunction with projects for inertial confinement nuclear fusion (ICF) and neutron spallation sources. In this paper, we show that the pulse compression requests to make operative these acceleration mechanisms do not fall in contradic...

An optical soliton pulse may be used as a control signal in non-linear optical loop mirror demultiplexers in order to reduce timing-jitter noise and cross-talk. A mathematical model for calculating the width of the soliton switching window and optimizing critical parameters such as walk-off time and pulse width has been presented, and its accuracy is verified by solving the nonlinear Schrodinge...

Contemporary CO 2 laser systems are capable to delivering picosecond pulses of the multi-terawatt peak power. Further pulse compression a few cycles is possible using post-compression in bulk materials with negative group velocity dispersion (GVD). We have experimentally demonstrated long-wave infrared (9.2 μm) 150-GW power from 1.85 ps less than 500 fs combination two optical significantly dif...

In this paper, photonic technologies for the realization of high-capacity optical time-division multiplexed (OTDM) local and metropolitan area networks (LANs and MANs) are addressed including all-optical techniques such as ultra short pulse generation, all-optical clock recovery, optical multiplexing/demultiplexing, and optical packet compression/decompression. Furthermore, the new trends in hi...

We systematically study the pulse advance and pulse compression in light propagation through a transparent, anomalously dispersive medium. Using an Argand diagram, we show that pulse compression is the only form of pulse distortion, while other forms of pulse distortion can be eliminated. Experimentally, we implement a dual-band electronic amplifier to measure the negative pulse group delay and...