2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Session

W-MEDAL1 CAP Medal Talk François Légaré, EMT-INRS (CAP Herzberg Medal Recipient/Récipiendaire de la médaille Herzberg de l'ACP)

W-MEDAL1

17 Jun 2015, 15:45

University of Alberta

Conveners

W-MEDAL1 CAP Medal Talk François Légaré, EMT-INRS (CAP Herzberg Medal Recipient/Récipiendaire de la médaille Herzberg de l'ACP)

• Robert Fedosejevs (University of Alberta)

874. A new strategy to build ultrafast lasers; Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification

Francois Legare (INRS-EMT)

17/06/2015, 15:45

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénier

High power laser amplification of octave spanning or even octave exceeding spectra is a formidable technological challenge since the universal dilemma of gain narrowing is only one of many problems on this path. The shortcoming of all present femtosecond (1fs = 0.000000000000001s) laser amplification schemes suffer from opposing conditions for either high amplification level (=> high peak...