Title :
Design principles for ultrafast thin-disk regenerative amplifiers without conventional stretcher
Author :
Nickel, Detlef ; Stolzenburg, Christian ; Beyertt, Angelika ; Giesen, Adolf ; Butze, Frank
Author_Institution :
lnst. fur Strahlwerkzeuge, Stuttgart Univ., Germany
Abstract :
We present design principles for ultrafast Yb:KYW thin-disk amplifiers providing ultrashort pulses with high energies at high repetition rates. Without using a conventional stretcher, 10 μJ, 300 fs pulses were generated at 200 kHz repetition rate. Using the dispersive stretching of the pulses during amplification renders the effort of a complex chirped pulse amplification setup unnecessary.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; solid lasers; ytterbium; 10 muJ; 300 fs; KYWO4Yb; chirped pulse amplification; dispersive pulse stretching; ultrafast thin-disk amplifier; ultrashort pulse; Dispersion; Laser ablation; Nickel; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical distortion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201660
