High-power, 1-ps, all-Yb:YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier

Fattahi, Hanieh; Alismail, Ayman; Wang, Haochuan; Brons, Jonathan; Pronin, Oleg; Buberl, Theresa; Vámos, Lénárd; Arisholm, Gunnar; Azzeer, Abdallah M. and Krausz, Ferenc (2016): High-power, 1-ps, all-Yb:YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier. In: Optics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 6: pp. 1126-1129

Abstract

We report a 100 W, 20 mJ, 1-ps, all-Yb:YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier seeded by a microjoule-level Yb:YAG thin-disk Kerr-lens mode-locked oscillator. The regenerative amplifier is implemented in a chirped pulse amplification system and operates at an ambient temperature in air, delivering ultrastable output pulses at a 5 kHz repetition rate and with a root mean square power noise value of less than 0.5%. Second harmonic generation of the amplifier's output in a 1.5 mm-thick BBO crystal results in more than 70 W at 515 nm, making the system an attractive source for pumping optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers in the visible and near-infrared spectral ranges. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Physics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
• ISSN: 0146-9592
• Language: English