Pump-noise transfer in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

Nicolas Forget; Arnaud Cotel; Erik Brambrink; Patrick Audebert; Catherine Le Blanc; Aurélie Jullien; Olivier Albert; Gilles Cheriaux

Pump-noise transfer in optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

Nicolas Forget ¹ Arnaud Cotel ¹ Erik Brambrink ¹ Patrick Audebert ¹ Catherine Le Blanc ¹ Aurélie Jullien ² Olivier Albert ² Gilles Cheriaux ²

1 LULI - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses

2 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée

Abstract : We report on direct observation of temporal contrast degradation of short pulses amplified by optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification. We show that, despite injection seeding, quantum-noise-induced fast modulations 50 ps of the temporal profile of the pump pulse are imprinted on the spectrum of the amplified chirped pulse and give rise to a large picosecond pedestal in the time domain.

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Physics [physics] / Physics [physics] / Optics [physics.optics]

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