• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.318-319
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.234-235
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• 2001

최근의 극초단 펄스의 개발의 대부분은 주로 고체 이득매질을 이용하여 근적외선 영역에서 이루어지고 있다 그러나 가시광선인 500～700 nm 파장대역에서는 특성이 좋은 고체 이득매질의 개발이 이루어지지 않아, 가시광선 영역의 극초단 펄스의 개발에 대한 연구는 최근에는 거의 이루어지지 않고 있다. 현재로서 가능한 방법은 티타늄 사파이어 레이저를 이용하여 극초단 펄스를 발생시키고, 이를 CPA(Chirped Pulse Amplification)방법으로 증폭한 다음에 이의 제2고조파 펄스를 얻고, 이를 다시 광파라메트릭 방법으로 가시광선 파장영역의 극초단 펄스를 얻는 방법이 있는데, 이는 대규모의 설비 및 장치를 필요로 한다. (중략)

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 2009

A chirped-pulse amplification Ti:sapphire laser system has been designed using a 10-Hz 100-TW Ti:sapphire laser to generate 0.1-Hz 0.5-PW laser pulses and optimize their temporal qualities such as temporal contrast and pulse duration. A high-energy booster amplifier to be added is expected to produce an energy above 30 J through the parasitic lasing suppression and the efficient amplification. To improve the temporal contrast of the laser pulses, a high-contrast 1-kHz amplifier system is used as a front-end. A grating stretcher which makes the laser pulse have 1-ns duration is used to prevent optical damages due to high pulse energy during amplification. A grating compressor has been designed with group delay analysis to obtain the recompressed pulse duration close to the transform-limited pulse duration. The final laser pulses are expected to have energy above 20 J and duration below 40 fs.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.260-266
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• 2022

A diffraction grating structure composed of two matching layers and two grating layers was formed, and a diffraction grating with high transmission diffraction efficiency in the -1st order was designed through an optimization technique. The designed diffraction grating had a transverse electric wave diffraction efficiency of 99.997% at the design center wavelength, and had a wavelength width of 80 nm and an incident angle width of 20.0° that maintained a diffraction efficiency of 95% or more. By performing the grating tolerance analysis, it was confirmed that the thickness tolerance for a diffraction efficiency of 95% or more was secured to at least 60 nm, and the diffraction efficiency could be maintained even in a trapezoidal shape with an internal angle of less than 10°.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.556-563
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• 2006

We present a comprehensive study of a chirped pulse Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier system operating at 1 kHz. Main constituents of the system are described in detail. The amplifier stage was first converted to a repetition rate-tunable kHz gain-switched nanosecond Ti:sapphire laser. Operation characteristics at different repetition rates such as build-up times of laser pulses, pump power-dependent output powers and pulse durations, damage thresholds, and tunability ranges were studied. Based on the results achieved, the switching time of the Pocket's cell used and the round trip numbers in the regenerative amplifier were optimized at 1 kHz. The output pulses with a pulse width of 50fs from a home-made Ken lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire oscillator were used as seed pulses. The pulses were expanded to 120ps in a grating stretcher prior to coupling into the 3-mirror amplifier cavity. After amplification and recompression, a stable 1kHz Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier system, which delivers 85-fs, $320-{\mu}J$ pulses, was fully constructed.