Q-switching operation with a diode-pumped cooled Yb:LiYF/sub 4/ for chirped-pulse regenerative amplification

Author

Kawanaka, J. ; Yamakawa, K. ; Nishioka, H. ; Ueda, K.

Author_Institution

Adv. Photon Res. Center, Japan Atomic Energy Res. Inst., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. In the present work, a diode-pumped regenerative amplifier with a cooled Yb:YLF crystal has been constructed as a booster amplifier in our all solid-state ultrahigh-peak-power laser system, and an initial laser gain and a cavity loss have been estimated in its Q-switching operation to numerically simulate a chirped-pulse regenerative amplification.

Keywords

Q-switching; chirp modulation; laser cavity resonators; optical losses; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; solid lasers; ytterbium; 12 mJ; LiYF4:Yb; Q-switching operation; YLF:Yb; Yb:LiYF/sub 4/ laser; all solid-state ultrahigh-peak-power laser system; amplified pulse energy; booster amplifier; cavity loss; chirped-pulse regenerative amplification; diode-pumped cooled Yb:YLF; diode-pumped regenerative amplifier; laser gain; Atom lasers; Chirp; Diodes; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser theory; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034133

Filename

1034133