360-W, 1-kHz pulse generation from a diode-pumped Nd:YAG amplifier with a phase conjugation mirror

Author

Kiriyama, Hiromitsu ; Nagai, Toru ; Yamakawa, Koichi ; Kageyama, Nobuto ; Miyajima, Hirofumi ; Kan, Hirofumi ; Yoshida, Hidetsugu ; Nakatsuka, Masahiro

Author_Institution

Adv. Photon Res. Center, Japan Atomic Energy Res. Inst., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

86

Abstract

For the pumping of a high-average-power ultrashort-pulse Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse-amplification (CPA) laser systems, a high-average-power (LD) pumped Nd:YAG laser master-oscillator-power-amplifier (MOPA) system has been developed. It has high efficiency, a correspondingly small thermal load, and is also extremely compact as compared to the lamp pumped laser system. It is applicable and scalable to the design of high-powered laser system. The details of the design and performance of this system will be presented.

Keywords

chirp modulation; laser mirrors; neodymium; optical phase conjugation; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 1 kHz; 360 W; Al₂O₃:Ti; Nd:YAG amplifier; Nd:YAG laser; Ti:sapphire; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; chirped-pulse-amplification; diode-pumping; laser diodes; master-oscillator-power-amplifier; phase conjugation mirror; pulse generation; thermal load; ultrashort pulses; Chirp; Diodes; Lamps; Laser excitation; Mirrors; Optical design; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Pump lasers; Thermal loading;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1312147

Filename

1312147