000276528 001__ 276528 000276528 005__ 20211110132410.0 000276528 0247_ $$2datacite_doi$$a10.3204/PUBDB-2015-04727 000276528 037__ $$aPUBDB-2015-04727 000276528 041__ $$aEnglish 000276528 1001_ $$0P:(DE-H253)PIP1014959$$aCalendron, Anne-Laure$$b0$$eCorresponding author$$gfemale 000276528 245__ $$aTowards an Ytterbium based optical waveform synthesizer$$f2011-08-01 - 2014-12-31 000276528 260__ $$aHamburg$$c2015 000276528 300__ $$a15 - 193 000276528 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Dissertation 000276528 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aDISSERTATION 000276528 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aPHDTHESIS 000276528 3367_ $$02$$2EndNote$$aThesis 000276528 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)11$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aDissertation / PhD Thesis$$bphd$$mphd$$s1447400223_5370 000276528 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$adoctoralThesis 000276528 502__ $$aDissertation, Universität Hamburg, 2015$$bDissertation$$cUniversität Hamburg$$d2015 000276528 500__ $$aEs handelt sich um die Kurzversion der Doktorarbeit 000276528 520__ $$aMolecular and atomic structures and dynamics have been unraveled with the development of ultrafast, high-energy optical lasers, delivering pulses from the infra-red to the X-rays. Soft X-Rays attosecond pulses can be generated via high-harmonic generation from an optical high-energy, single-cycle laser. Coherent pulse synthesis of few-cycle, high-energy pulses is a promising technique to generate isolated attosecond pulses for its scalability in spectral bandwidth and energy. Here we consider pulse synthesizer based on OPCPAs. Four major parts compose a waveform synthesizer: first a pump line scalable to high energies, second a broadband carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stable front-end, third a sequenceof parametric amplification stages to amplify the front-end pulses to high energies, and fourth synchronization and stabilization of the pulses. The state of the art waveform synthesizers rely on Ti:sapphire pump lasers, which are advantageous for the mature technology and the ultrashort pulses, but are intrinsically limited in achievable average power. This limitation in the waveform synthesizer pump line can be overcome by using alternative laser materials, like ytterbium doped hosts. In this thesis, the developments toward an ytterbium based waveform synthesizer are presented.The pump line of the synthesizer realized in this work consists of a seed oscillator with chirped fiber Bragg grating pulse stretcher and two main amplifiers. The pulse energy of the regenerative amplifier reaches 6.5 mJ at 1 kHz repetition rate. Its output is split in two: one part is compressed to 615 fs transform-limited pulses to drive the front-end. The second part seeds a multi-pass amplifier based on composite thin-disk technology, whichboosts the energy up to 72 mJ. With the compressed pulses of the regenerative amplifier, the front-end based on white-light generation is demonstrated with a passive CEP stability of 90 mrad over 11 h. The best adapted parameters for white-light supercontinuum generation with sub-picosecond long pulses were found after an experimental study. A narrow-band fraction of the super-continuum is parametrically amplified. The complete electric field of the amplified signal was retrieved from a FROG measurement. The smooth and well-behaved phase is a proof that the broadband pulse generated by white-light continuum remains a single, compressible pulse. The corresponding CEP stable idler generates a CEP stable supercontinuum, which is split in the channels of the waveform synthesizer. These broadband pulses are then amplified to the μJ level with parametricamplifiers. 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