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Investigation of Early Plasma Evolution Induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Published on: July 2, 2012
High power laser pulses with voltage controlled durations of 400 - 1000 ps
1Photonik-Zentrum Kaiserslautern, Kohlenhofstr. 10, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany. florian.harth@pzkl.de
Optics Express
|March 29, 2012
Abstract:
We report on the generation and amplification of pulses with pulse widths of 400 - 1000 ps at 1064 nm. For pulse generation an ultra-fast semiconductor modulator is used that modulates a cw-beam of a DFB diode laser. The pulse lengths could be adjusted by the use of a voltage control. The pulses were amplified in a solid state Nd:YVO₄ regenerative amplifier to an average power of up to 47.7 W at 100 - 816 kHz.

