Abstract

Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) is a well established technique to amplify high-energy ultrashort pulses [1]. To improve the compactness, cost, stability and the alignment easiness of these bulky systems, fiber-OPCPA (FOPCPA) systems are a very promising alternative. Their potential [1-3] has already been experimentally reported in the picosecond regime by some of us in Ref. [4] and by Zhou et al. [5] at the same time in the telecommunication windows. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that these experiments can be transposed to 1 µm in the femtosecond regime where most of potential applications are realized [1], thanks to the photonic crystal fiber (PCF) technology. The experimental set-up is fully described in Ref [6]. It is composed of an all-fiber pulsed pump, an Öffner triplet to achieve the signal stretching and a PCF.

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