High-energy regenerative thin disk amplifier
Abstract
Design of a compact regenerative laser amplifier based on two Yb:YAG thin-disks is presented. Energy up to 100 mJ in picoseconds pulses will be delivered with a repetition rate of 1 kHz. System is designed for seeding a kW-class multipass amplifier for industrial and scientific applications. Laser heads are pumped at zero-phonon line (968.825 nm [1]) by stabilized high-power pump diodes operated in pulsed regime. Seed pulses are produced in a fiber oscillator at 1030 nm and CPA technique utilizing transmission gratings for pulse stretching and compression is applied.
- Publication:
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Light at Extreme Intensities 2011
- Pub Date:
- July 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4736765
- Bibcode:
- 2012AIPC.1462...84C
- Keywords:
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- amplifiers;
- optical pulse generation;
- solid lasers;
- ytterbium;
- yttrium compounds;
- 42.55.Rz;
- 42.60.-v;
- 42.60.By;
- 42.65.Re;
- Doped-insulator lasers and other solid state lasers;
- Laser optical systems: design and operation;
- Design of specific laser systems;
- Ultrafast processes;
- optical pulse generation and pulse compression