Benefiting from the industrial-grade stability and reliability of the PHAROS and CARBIDE lasers, ORPHEUS-OPCPA delivers few-cycle, CEP-stable pulses in a package as compact as our standard parametric amplifiers. All of the ORPHEUS OPCPA models use the same base architecture to produce CEP‑stable, few-cycle pulses in one of the four center wavelengths: 800 nm, 1600 nm, 2000 nm, and 3000 nm. ORPHEUS-OPCPA is available with a pulse compressor or without, thus, intended as seed sources, delivering background-free pulses with near‑single-cycle bandwidths, excellent spectral phase coherence, and CEP stability.

Using synchronized industrial-grade CARBIDE or PHAROS lasers, pump power of up to 320 W and pump pulse energy of up to 8 mJ is accessible. The use of other pump sources for higher power, such as thin-disk or innoslab lasers, is available upon request.

Specifications

Model	ORPHEUS-OPCPA
Center wavelength	800 nm	1600 nm	2000 nm	3000 nm
Pump source ¹⁾	PHAROS / CARBIDE
Pump power ¹⁾	20 – 320 W
Pump pulse energy ¹⁾	0.2 – 8 mJ
Repetition rate	1 kHz – 1 MHz
Conversion efficiency ²⁾	> 7%	> 10%	> 9%	> 6%
Pulse duration ²⁾	< 10 fs	< 40 fs	< 25 fs	< 45 fs
Transform-limited pulse duration ^{2) 3)}	< 6 fs	< 30 fs	< 15 fs	< 35 fs
CEP stability, 1h ^{2) 4)}	< 250 mrad
Long-term power stability, 8 h ^{2) 5)}	< 1.5%
Pulse-to-pulse energy stability, 1 min ^{2) 5)}	< 1.5%

For using other pump sources, such as thin-disk or innoslab lasers, contact sales@lightcon.com.
Typical values. For custom inquiries, contact sales@lightcon.com.
Uncompressed, for seeding larger amplifiers.
CEP values calculated from unaveraged, single-shot measurements.
Expressed as normalized root mean squared deviation (NRMSD).

Spectra Example

Example spectra of four models of Orpheus-OPCPA

ORPHEUS-OPCPA CEP stability

CEP stability of ORPHEUS-OPCPA (800 nm, 100 kHz). CEP values calculated from unaveraged, single-shot measurements.

CEP stability of ORPHEUS-OPCPA (3 μm, 1 kHz). CEP values calculated from unaveraged, single-shot measurements.

Pulse-to-pulse energy stability of ORPHEUS-OPCPA at 800 nm

Long-term output stability of ORPHEUS-OPCPA at 800 nm

Publications

Spatio-spectral couplings in optical parametric amplifiers

A. D. Andres, S. W. Jolly, P. Fischer, A. A. Muschet, F. Schnur, and L. Veisz, Optics Express 8 (31), 12036 (2023).

Utilizing the temporal superresolution approach in an optical parametric synthesizer to generate multi-TW sub-4-fs light pulses

A. A. Muschet, A. D. Andres, P. Fischer, R. Salh, and L. Veisz, Optics Express 3 (30), 4374 (2022).

OPCPA Laser pumping and seeding PHAROS ORPHEUS-OPCPA

SYLOS lasers – the frontier of few-cycle, multi-TW, kHz lasers for ultrafast applications at extreme light infrastructure attosecond light pulse source

S. Toth, T. Stanislauskas, I. Balciunas, R. Budriunas, J. Adamonis, R. Danilevicius, K. Viskontas, D. Lengvinas, G. Veitas, D. Gadonas et al., Journal of Physics: Photonics 4 (2), 045003 (2020).

OPCPA Laser pumping and seeding Pulse characterization CEP stabilization ORPHEUS-OPCPA OPCPA-HE

Thin-disk laser-pumped OPCPA system delivering 44 TW few-cycle pulses

M. Kretschmar, J. Tuemmler, B. Schütte, A. Hoffmann, B. Senfftleben, M. Mero, M. Sauppe, D. Rupp, M. J. J. Vrakking, I. Will et al., Optics Express 23 (28), 34574 (2020).

OPCPA Laser pumping and seeding PHAROS I-OPA ORPHEUS-OPCPA

53 W average power CEP-stabilized OPCPA system delivering 55 TW few cycle pulses at 1 kHz repetition rate

R. Budriūnas, T. Stanislauskas, J. Adamonis, A. Aleknavičius, G. Veitas, D. Gadonas, S. Balickas, A. Michailovas, and A. Varanavičius, Optics Express 5 (25), 5797 (2017).

OPCPA CEP stabilization ORPHEUS-OPCPA OPCPA-HE

The ELI-ALPS facility: the next generation of attosecond sources

S. Kühn, M. Dumergue, S. Kahaly, S. Mondal, M. Füle, T. Csizmadia, B. Farkas, B. Major, Z. Várallyay, E. Cormier et al., Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 13 (50), 132002 (2017).

OPCPA Laser pumping and seeding PHAROS ORPHEUS-OPCPA OPCPA-HE

Table top TW-class OPCPA system driven by tandem femtosecond Yb:KGW and picosecond Nd:YAG lasers

T. Stanislauskas, R. Budriūnas, R. Antipenkov, A. Zaukevičius, J. Adamonis, A. Michailovas, L. Giniūnas, R. Danielius, A. Piskarskas, and A. Varanavičius, Optics Express 2 (22), 1865 (2014).

OPCPA PHAROS FLINT ORPHEUS-OPCPA

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