• DocumentCode
    3451195
  • Title

    Directly diode-pumped Yb:KYW regenerative amplifier

  • Author

    Liu, Hongying ; Nees, John ; Mourou, Gerard

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Ultrafact Opt. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    11-11 May 2001
  • Firstpage
    335
  • Lastpage
    336
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. We present what is, to our best knowledge, the first Yb:KY(WO/sub 4/)/sub 2/ (Yb:KYW) regenerative amplifier. The 10-at.% Yb/sup 3+/-doped KY(WO/sub 4/)/sub 2/ crystal is 4-mm long and cut at Brewster angle for the E//b signal beam. The injection pulses originated from a directly diode-pumped Yb:glass saturable-absorber mode-locked oscillator. The mode-locked pulses stretched by a grating stretcher before being injected.
  • Keywords
    laser mode locking; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; solid lasers; ytterbium; KY(WO/sub 4/)/sub 2/:Yb; Yb:KYW regenerative amplifier; curved intracavity mirrors; directly diode-pumped amplifier; plane mirrors; pulse compression; pulse picker; pulse stretching; saturable-absorber mode-locked oscillator; Absorption; Bandwidth; Diodes; Laser beams; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-662-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2001.947880
  • Filename
    947880