Femtosecond mid-IR optical vortex laser based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Junyu Qian; Yujie Peng; Yanyan Li; Pengfei Wang; Beijie Shao; Zhe Liu; Yuxin Leng; Ruxin Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.385190

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 3, 421(2020)

Femtosecond mid-IR optical vortex laser based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification Editors' Pick

Junyu Qian^1,2, Yujie Peng^1,3,4、*, Yanyan Li¹, Pengfei Wang^1,2, Beijie Shao^1,2, Zhe Liu¹, Yuxin Leng^1,3,5、*, and Ruxin Li^1,3,6、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China

⁴e-mail: yjpeng@siom.ac.cn

⁵e-mail: lengyuxin@mail.siom.ac.cn

⁶e-mail: ruxinli@mail.shcnc.ac.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Dec. 5, 2019

Accepted: Jan. 21, 2020

Published Online: Feb. 28, 2020

The Author Email: Yujie Peng (yjpeng@siom.ac.cn), Yuxin Leng (lengyuxin@mail.siom.ac.cn), Ruxin Li (ruxinli@mail.shcnc.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.385190

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