High energy and power cryogenic composite-thin-disk Yb:YAG laser

Author

Zapata, Luis E. ; Wenqian Huang ; Cankaya, Huseyin ; Calendron, Anne-Laure ; Hua Lin ; Granados, E. ; Kyung-Han Hong ; Kartner, Franz X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

12-16 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

High energy picosecond lasers are important as drivers for optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers (OPCPA), THz generation, micromachining and more. Here, we are using two cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG gain elements in a strictly image relayed multipass architecture to reach our goal of building a 100 W average power laser system delivering 1-joule pulses of 10 picosecond duration to drive high-flux mid-IR 100-mJ/100Hz OPCPAs and attosecond pulse generation in the 100 eV-keV range.

Keywords

optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; solid lasers; ytterbium; 1-joule pulses; THz generation; YAG:Yb; attosecond pulse generation; cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG gain elements; energy 1 J; energy 100 mJ; frequency 100 Hz; high energy cryogenic composite-thin-disk Yb:YAG laser; high energy picosecond lasers; high power cryogenic composite-thin-disk Yb:YAG laser; high-flux mid-IR OPCPA; micromachining; multipass architecture; optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers; picosecond duration; time 10 ps; Chirp; Cryogenics; Free electron lasers; Laser theory; Optical fiber amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0593-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800634

Filename

6800634