Astigmatism transfer phenomena in the optical parametric amplification process

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• 作者：Wenkai Li ; Yun Chen ; Yanyan Li ; Yi Xu ; Xiaoyang Guo ; Jun Lu…
• 刊名：Applied Physics B
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：123
• 期：1
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics, general; Physical Chemistry; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices; Quantum Optics; Engineering, general;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-0649
• 卷排序：123

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We numerically and experimentally investigate the astigmatism transfer phenomena in femtosecond optical parametric amplification (OPA). We model the OPA process based on the coupled second-order three-wave nonlinear propagation equations. The numerical and experimental results support that the input pump pulse astigmatism can be transferred into the idler pulse but not the signal pulse, and the idler pulse astigmatism originating from spatial walk-off is less than the idler pulse astigmatism received from the pump. Thus, we can provide a clear understanding of astigmatism transfer mechanisms in the OPA process, and make better use of broadband tunable OPA sources.