Title :
Directly diode-pumped Yb:KYW regenerative amplifier
Author :
Liu, Hongying ; Nees, John ; Mourou, Gerard
Author_Institution :
Center for Ultrafact Opt. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We present what is, to our best knowledge, the first Yb:KY(WO/sub 4/)/sub 2/ (Yb:KYW) regenerative amplifier. The 10-at.% Yb/sup 3+/-doped KY(WO/sub 4/)/sub 2/ crystal is 4-mm long and cut at Brewster angle for the E//b signal beam. The injection pulses originated from a directly diode-pumped Yb:glass saturable-absorber mode-locked oscillator. The mode-locked pulses stretched by a grating stretcher before being injected.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; solid lasers; ytterbium; KY(WO/sub 4/)/sub 2/:Yb; Yb:KYW regenerative amplifier; curved intracavity mirrors; directly diode-pumped amplifier; plane mirrors; pulse compression; pulse picker; pulse stretching; saturable-absorber mode-locked oscillator; Absorption; Bandwidth; Diodes; Laser beams; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-662-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2001.947880
