Title :
Nd:YVO/sub 4/ and Yb:YAG thin disk regenerative amplifier
Author :
Muller, D. ; Erhard, S. ; Giesen, A.
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Strahlwerkzeuge, Stuttgart Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Applications like micromachining or dental surgery demand stable sources of ultrashort pulses with a repetition rate of several kilohertz, millijoule energy levels and good beam quality. To this end, two MOPA systems, based on Nd:YVO/sub 4/ and Yb:YAG thin disks as amplifying medium, have been studied experimentally. The advantages of the thin disk concept for this application are the small depolarization losses and the scalability to high power.
Keywords :
laser stability; neodymium; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; ytterbium; MOPA systems; Nd:YVO/sub 4/ thin disks; YAG:Yb; YAl5O12:Yb; YVO/sub 4/:Nd; Yb:YAG thin disks; dental surgery; diode pumped disk laser head; micromachining; mode-locked oscillator seed laser; pulse broadening; pulse picker system; scalability to high power; small depolarization losses; stable ultrashort pulse sources; thin disk regenerative amplifier; Diodes; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Optimized production technology; Power amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Ultrafast optics;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2001.947881
