• DocumentCode
    447881
  • Title

    High-average-power picosecond drive source for photocathode injectors

  • Author

    Dergachev, Alex ; Yakshin, Mikhail A. ; Moulton, Peter F. ; Janke, Carsten ; Benetti, Marco ; Ruchti, Thomas ; Shinn, Michelle

  • Author_Institution
    Q-Peak, Inc.,, Bedford, MA, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-27 May 2005
  • Firstpage
    166
  • Abstract
    We report a diode-pumped, Nd:YVO4, picosecond MOPA system based on passively mode-locked oscillator enabled by SESAM® technology that produces >20 W of average power at 532 nm.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; oscillators; photocathodes; power amplifiers; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; 532 nm; MOPA system; SESAM; YVO4:Nd; diode-pumping; passively mode-locked oscillator; photocathode injector; picosecond drive source; semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror; Cathodes; Free electron lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical design; Oscillators; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse power systems; Semiconductor diodes; Solid lasers;
  • 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.2005.201713
  • Filename
    1572779