• DocumentCode
    3177430
  • Title

    Spectral control of diode-pumped Yb:LiYF4 chirped-pulse regenerative amplifier

  • Author

    Kawanaka, Junji ; Yamakawa, Koichi ; Nishioka, Hajime ; Ueda, Ken-ichi

  • Author_Institution
    Adv. Photon Res. Center, Japan Atomic Energy Res. Inst., Kyoto, Japan
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    451
  • Abstract
    Yb:LiYF4 (Yb:YLF) crystal is focused on as one of the promised laser materials in the diode-pumped ultrahigh-peak-power lasers due to its high energy storage, wide spectral emission range, low nonlinear refractive index and high thermal conductivity. In this paper, spectral control with a pellicle was demonstrated for broadening a spectral width of the regenerative amplified pulse. Sub-100 fs pulse duration with over-ten-milli-joule pulse energy after compression could be obtained with pellicle spectral shaping and additional pump diode by replacing the fiber stretcher to an antiparallel grating pair pulse stretcher.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; infrared spectra; lithium compounds; optical materials; optical pulse compression; optical pumping; solid lasers; spectral line broadening; ytterbium; 100 fs; LiYF4:Yb; YLF:Yb; Yb:LiYF4; Yb:YLF crystal; diode-pumping; fiber stretcher; laser materials; pellicle spectral shaping; pulse chirping; pulse compression; pump diode; regenerative amplifier; spectral control; spectral width broadening; Conducting materials; Crystalline materials; Diodes; Energy storage; Optical materials; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse shaping methods; Refractive index; Thermal conductivity;
  • 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.2003.1313514
  • Filename
    1313514
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3177430