Frequency-doubled picosecond regenerative Yb:YAG thin disk amplifier

Author

Stolzenburg, C. ; Giesen, A.

Author_Institution

Stuttgart Univ., Stuttgart

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We have demonstrated an Yb:YAG thin disk amplifier capable of delivering picosecond pulses at a repetition rate of up to 200 kHz. At 1030 nm a maximum average power of 62 W and a maximum output energy of 2.3 mJ have been achieved. Extracavity frequency doubling is performed using a BiBO crystal. Reaching conversion efficiencies up to 60% an average power of 28.5 W and a maximum pulse energy of 1.1 mJ at 515 nm have been generated.

Keywords

bismuth compounds; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; nonlinear optics; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; solid lasers; ytterbium; BiB₃O₆; BiBO crystal; YAG:Yb; extracavity frequency doubling; frequency-doubled picosecond regenerative amplifier; thin disk amplifier; wavelength 1030 nm; wavelength 515 nm; Frequency conversion; Laser beam cutting; Laser modes; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385803

Filename

4385803