Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier Producing Ultrashort 10.5 mJ Pulses at 1.55 µm

Publication date	1 January 2020
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/hilas.2020.hf1b.2
Reference	J. Mathijssen, T. de Faria Pinto, A. Schulte, K.S.E. Eikema and S. Witte: Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier Producing Ultrashort 10.5 mJ Pulses at 1.55 µm In: OSA High-brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress 2020 (EUVXRAY, HILAS, MICS), paper HF1B.2, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America), 2020.
Group	EUV Generation & Imaging

We present a 1.55 µm OPCPA system delivering 10.5 mJ, 220 fs pulses at 100 Hz repetition rate. It is pumped by a picosecond Nd:YAG amplifier and seeded by a femtosecond mode-locked Er fiber laser.