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

作者:Fattahi Hanieh*; Alismail Ayman; Wang Haochuan; Brons Jonathan; Pronin Oleg; Buberl Theresa; Vamos Lenard; Arisholm Gunnar; Azzeer Abdallah M; Krausz Ferenc
来源:Optics Letters, 2016, 41(6): 1126-1129.
DOI:10.1364/OL.41.001126

摘要

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.

  • 出版日期2016-3-15