Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10<sup>−6</sup> noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification

Jingui Ma; Kainan Xiong; Peng Yuan; Xiaoniu Tu; Jing Wang; Guoqiang Xie; Yanqing Zheng; Liejia Qian

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00967-6

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Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10⁻⁶ noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification

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- Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10⁻⁶ noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 10, Pages: 2406-2414(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (MOE), Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
  2.Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China
  3.School of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315211, China
  4.Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
- Author bio：
  
  Yanqing Zheng (zhengyanqing@nbu.edu.cn)
  Liejia Qian (qianlj19@sjtu.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00967-6
  CLC：
- Published：31 October 2022，
  
  Published Online：13 September 2022，
  
  Received：01 August 2022，
  
  Revised：18 August 2022，
  
  Accepted：22 August 2022
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Ma, J. G. et al. Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10⁻⁶ noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2406-2414 (2022).
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Ma, J. G. et al. Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10⁻⁶ noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2406-2414 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00967-6.

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Abstract

Full pump depletion corresponds to the upper limit of the generated signal photons relative to the pump pulse; this allows the highest peak power to be produced in a unit area of ultraintense laser amplifiers. In practical systems based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification

however

the typical pump depletion is only ~35%. Here

we report quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification (QPCPA) with a specially designed 8-cm-thick Sm: YCOB crystal that highly dissipates the idler and hence improves pump depletion. We demonstrate 56% QPCPA energy efficiency for an 810-nm signal converted from a 532-nm pump

or equivalently 85% pump depletion. As another advantage

such a record high depletion greatly suppresses the parametric superfluorescence noise in QPCPA to only ~1.5 × 10

−6

relative to the amplified signal energy. These results pave the way to beyond the ten-petawatt peak power of the currently most intense lasers.

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Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification

DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00967-6

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Abstract

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Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10⁻⁶ noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification