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20 mJ, 1 ps Yb:YAG Thin-disk Regenerative Amplifier
Published on: July 12, 2017
High-repetition-rate picosecond pump laser based on a Yb:YAG disk amplifier for optical parametric amplification
Thomas Metzger1, Alexander Schwarz, Catherine Yuriko Teisset
1Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Garching, Germany. thomas.metzger@mpq.mpg.de
Optics Letters
|October 14, 2009
Abstract:
We report an optically synchronized picosecond pump laser for optical parametric amplifiers based on an Yb:YAG thin-disk amplifier. At 3 kHz repetition rate, pulse energies of 25 mJ with 1.6 ps pulse duration were achieved with an rms fluctuation in pulse energy of <0.7% by utilizing a broadly intermittent single-energy regime in the deterministic chaos of a continuously pumped regenerative amplifier.
