High energy amplification of a continuous wave mode-locked picosecond Nd:YVO4 laser by a pulsed grazing-incidence slab amplifier

Author

Agnesi, Antonio ; Carra, Luca ; Dallocchio, Paolo ; Pirzio, Federico ; Reali, Giancarlo ; Tomaselli, Alessandra ; Scarpa, Daniele ; Vacchi, Carla

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Laser Source Lab. - Univ. of Pavia, Pavia

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A single pass, side pumped grazing incidence Nd:YVO₄ amplifier, optimized for minimum ASE noise, was used to increase the energy of 10-ps mode-locking seed pulses from 1 nJ to 210 muJ, with M²=1.3.

Keywords

amplification; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical pumping; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; YVO₄:Nd; continuous wave mode-locked picosecond laser; diode-pumped amplification module; mode-locking seed pulses; pulsed grazing-incidence slab amplifier; solid-state laser systems; time 10 ps; Diodes; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Pump lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Slabs; (140.3280) Laser amplifiers; (140.3480) Lasers, diode-pumped; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (190.4160) Multiharmonic generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571242