High-average-power cryogenically-cooled picosecond Yb:YAG amplifier seeded by a fiber CPA system

Author

Hong, Kyung-Han ; Gopinath, Juliet ; Siddiqui, Aleem ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Lai, Chien-Jen ; Hybl, John ; Fan, Tso Yee

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report on a 300-W-level picosecond laser based on a cryogenically-cooled Yb:YAG amplifier seeded by a fiber CPA system. High-average-power picosecond second harmonic generation is also presented.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical fibre amplifiers; optical harmonic generation; optical modulation; thermo-optical devices; ytterbium; YAG:Yb; chirped-pulse amplification; cryogenically-cooled picosecond amplifier; fiber CPA system; high-average-power solid laser; power 300 W; second harmonic generation; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical harmonic generation; Power amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; (060.2320) Fiber optics amplifiers and oscillators; (140.3280) Laser amplifiers; (140.3615) Lasers, ytterbium;

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

5225650