Laserlab-Europe
MBI - High-intensity few-cycle midwave-infrared OPCPA

Millijoule pulses in the midwave infrared spectral range with few-cycle duration are provided for applications like X-ray or HHG generation. The driver source is operated at a 1 kHz repetition rate.

Laser-based light source parameters

1 kHz 5 µm few-cycle pulses

Peak Photon energy / central wavelenght
5 * 103 [nm]
Spectral Bandwidth FWHM / %
4000 - 6000 [nm]
Tunability
50 [%]
Beam shape
Gaussian
Pulse duration FWHM
8 * 101 [fs]
Pulse repetition rate
100 * 101 [Hz]
Maximum pulse energy
0.3 * 101 [mJ]
Peak power
15 * 109 [W]
contacts
Uwe Griebner
Techniques
Absorption
  • IR spectroscopy
  • Time-resolved studies
Disciplines
Material Sciences
  • Knowledge based multifunctional materials
Physics
  • High energy & particle physics
control/Data analysis
Control Software Type
  • SNLO
Data Output Type
  • binary files
Data Output Format
  • .txt