Sagnac-interferometer multipass-loop amplifier

Author

Roither, S. ; Verhoef, A. ; Mucke, O.D. ; Reider, G. ; Pugzlys, A. ; Baltuska, A.

Author_Institution

Photonics Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate an interferometrically stable pulse multiplexing-amplification-recombination scheme for direct laser amplification of picosecond pulses. Switching from single pulse amplification to the burst mode increases extraction efficiency, gain in cw-pumped crystals and output energies.

Keywords

Sagnac interferometers; laser beams; laser stability; optical materials; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; solid lasers; CW-pumped crystals; Sagnac-interferometer multipass-loop amplifier; burst mode operation; direct laser amplification; extraction efficiency; interferometrically stable pulse multiplexing-amplification-recombination scheme; laser gain; laser output energies; picosecond pulse amplification; Laser modes; Optical amplifiers; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pump lasers; Sagnac interferometers; Thermal expansion; Thermal lensing; (140.3280) Laser amplifiers; (140.7090) Ultrafast lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571947