High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science

Pushkin, Andrey; Migal, Ekaterina; Suleimanova, Dina; Mareev, Evgeniy; Potemkin, Fedor

doi:10.3390/photonics9020090

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High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science

by

Andrey Pushkin

¹,

Ekaterina Migal

¹,

Dina Suleimanova

¹,

Evgeniy Mareev

^1,2

and

Fedor Potemkin

^1,*

¹

Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia

²

Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics”, Institute of Photon Technologies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 108840 Moscow, Russia

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Photonics 2022, 9(2), 90; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9020090

Submission received: 30 December 2021 / Revised: 22 January 2022 / Accepted: 30 January 2022 / Published: 2 February 2022

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Power Lasers and Amplifiers)

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This review highlights the development of ultrafast sources in the near- and middle-IR range, developed in the laboratory of Nonlinear Optics and Superstrong Laser Fields at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The design of laser systems is based on a powerful ultrafast Cr:Forsterite system as a front-end and the subsequent nonlinear conversion of radiation into the mid-IR, THz, and UV spectral range. Various schemes of optical parametric amplifiers based on oxide and non-oxide crystals pumped with Cr:Forsterite laser can receive pulses in the range of 4–6 µm with gigawatt peak power. Alternative sources of mid-IR ultrashort laser pulses at a relatively high (MHz) repetition rate are also proposed as difference frequency generators and as a femtosecond mode-locked oscillator based on an Fe:ZnSe crystal. Iron ion-doped chalcogenides (Fe:ZnSe and Fe:CdSe) are shown to be effective gain media for broadband high-peak power mid-IR pulses in this spectral range. The developed sources pave the way for advanced research in strong-field science.

Keywords: mid-IR; femtosecond; chalcogenides; optical parametric amplifiers; strong-field science; ultrafast nonlinear phenomena; THz; optical harmonics; silicon; extreme states of matter

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Pushkin, A.; Migal, E.; Suleimanova, D.; Mareev, E.; Potemkin, F. High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science. Photonics 2022, 9, 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9020090

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Pushkin A, Migal E, Suleimanova D, Mareev E, Potemkin F. High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science. Photonics. 2022; 9(2):90. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9020090

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Pushkin, Andrey, Ekaterina Migal, Dina Suleimanova, Evgeniy Mareev, and Fedor Potemkin. 2022. "High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science" Photonics 9, no. 2: 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9020090

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Pushkin, A., Migal, E., Suleimanova, D., Mareev, E., & Potemkin, F. (2022). High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science. Photonics, 9(2), 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9020090

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