High power and high energy Yb:KYW regenerative amplifier using a chirped volume Bragg grating

Author

Calendron, A.-L. ; Wentsch, K.S. ; Meier, J. ; Lederer, M.J.

Author_Institution

High Q Laser Production GmbH, Kaestle-Areal, Hohenems, Austria

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report a high power/high energy dual-crystal Yb:KYW regenerative amplifier using a single chirped volume Bragg grating (CVBG) as stretcher/compressor with more than 12 W average power at repetition-rates >40 kHz and compressed pulsewidths around 500 fs.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; laser beams; optical pulse compression; potassium compounds; solid lasers; ytterbium; yttrium compounds; KY(WO₄)₂:Yb; dual-crystal regenerative amplifier; high-energy amplifier; high-power amplifier; laser repetition rates; pulse compressor; pulse stretcher; single chirped volume Bragg grating; Bragg gratings; Chirp; High power amplifiers; Laser mode locking; Optical amplifiers; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Solid lasers; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers; (140.3580) Lasers solid state; (140.4050) Lasers mode-locked; (140.4480) Optical amplifiers; (140.7090) Ultrafast lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5224560