• DocumentCode
    447838
  • Title

    Design principles for ultrafast thin-disk regenerative amplifiers without conventional stretcher

  • Author

    Nickel, Detlef ; Stolzenburg, Christian ; Beyertt, Angelika ; Giesen, Adolf ; Butze, Frank

  • Author_Institution
    lnst. fur Strahlwerkzeuge, Stuttgart Univ., Germany
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    13
  • Abstract
    We present design principles for ultrafast Yb:KYW thin-disk amplifiers providing ultrashort pulses with high energies at high repetition rates. Without using a conventional stretcher, 10 μJ, 300 fs pulses were generated at 200 kHz repetition rate. Using the dispersive stretching of the pulses during amplification renders the effort of a complex chirped pulse amplification setup unnecessary.
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; solid lasers; ytterbium; 10 muJ; 300 fs; KYWO4Yb; chirped pulse amplification; dispersive pulse stretching; ultrafast thin-disk amplifier; ultrashort pulse; Dispersion; Laser ablation; Nickel; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical distortion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-795-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2005.201660
  • Filename
    1572726