Title :
Broadband diode-pumped regenerative Yb-glass amplifiers for the POLARIS system
Author :
Podleska, S. ; Hein, J. ; Töpfer, T. ; Hellwing, M. ; Quednau, G. ; Siebold, M. ; Bödefeld, R. ; Paunescu, G. ; Kind, R. ; Sauerbrey, R. ; Ehrt, D. ; Wintzer, W. ; Perry, M.D.
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ., Jena, Germany
Abstract :
We report on performance of a two-stage diode-pumped Ytterbium-doped fluoride-phosphate-glass laser-amplifier system. Broadband amplification of chirped 2,5 ns pulses at 1 Hz repetition rate was demonstrated resulting in 100 mJ-pulses with a bandwidth of 15 nm centered at 1032 nm.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; fluoride glasses; high-speed optical techniques; optical glass; optical pumping; phosphate glasses; solid lasers; ytterbium; 1 Hz; 100 mJ; 1032 nm; 2.5 ns; POLARIS system; broadband amplification; broadband diode-pump; regenerative Yb-fluoride-phosphate-glass laser amplifier; repetition rate; Broadband amplifiers; Diodes; Glass; Gratings; Laser excitation; Optical pulses; Polarization; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7734-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312066
