50-MW, 12-ps Nd:YVO4 slab amplifier for OPCPA pumping

Author

Heese, C. ; Oehler, A.E.H. ; Gallmann, L. ; Keller, U.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The paper presents a four-pass Nd:YVO₄ InnoSlab amplifier with a record high peak power of 50 MW and 12 ps pulse duration. It exhibits excellent noise performance with pulse fluctuation below 0.8% rms.Most of them are limited to repetition rates below 10 kHz. The InnoSlab concept is adopted for amplifying energetic picosecond pulses at 50-100 kHz repetition rate from a Duetto laser from Time-Bandwidth Products Inc. This concept has been proven for the amplification of low peak-power lasers without deteriorating beam quality and noise performance

Keywords

chirp modulation; fluctuations; laser beams; laser noise; neodymium; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; Duetto laser; OPCPA pumping; YVO₄:Nd; amplifier noise; beam quality; energetic picosecond pulses; four-pass InnoSlab amplifier; optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers; power 50 MW; pulse fluctuation; time 12 ps; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Optical resonators; Optimized production technology; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Slabs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942424

Filename

5942424