TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mainz, Roland E.
AU  - Rossi, Giulio Maria
AU  - Scheiba, Fabian
AU  - Silva-Toledo, Miguel A.
AU  - Yang, Yudong
AU  - Cirmi, Giovanni
AU  - Kärtner, Franz
TI  - Parametric Waveform Synthesis: a scalable approach to generate sub-cycle optical transients
JO  - Optics express
VL  - 31
IS  - 7
SN  - 1094-4087
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Optica
M1  - PUBDB-2023-00951
SP  - 11363 - 11394
PY  - 2023
AB  - The availability of electromagnetic pulses with controllable field waveform and extremely short duration, even below a single optical cycle, is imperative to fully harness strong-field processes and to gain insight into ultrafast light-driven mechanisms occurring in the attosecond time-domain. The recently demonstrated parametric waveform synthesis (PWS) introduces an energy-, power- and spectrum-scalable method to generate non-sinusoidal sub-cycle optical waveforms by coherently combining different phase-stable pulses attained via optical parametric amplifiers. Significant technological developments have been made to overcome the stability issues related to PWS and to obtain an effective and reliable waveform control system. Here we present the main ingredients enabling PWS technology. The design choices concerning the optical, mechanical and electronic setups are justified by analytical/numerical modeling and benchmarked by experimental observations. In its present incarnation, PWS technology enables the generation of field-controllable mJ-level few-femtosecond pulses spanning the visible to infrared range.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 37155774
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000967351700002
DO  - DOI:10.1364/OE.485543
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/578455
ER  -