Amplification of picosecond pulses to 100 W by an Yb:YAG thin-disk with CVBG compressor

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2178900" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2178900</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2178900" target="_blank" >10.1117/12.2178900</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Amplification of picosecond pulses to 100 W by an Yb:YAG thin-disk with CVBG compressor

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

High average power picosecond lasers have become an import tool in many fields of science and industry. We report on progress in development of 100 kHz, 100 W picosecond Yb:YAG thin disk laser amplifier with fundamental spatial mode at the HiLASE laser center. More efficient direct pumping to an upper laser level has been employed in order to suppress thermal loading of the thin disk active medium and to increase system stability. We also carefully analyzed and described all benefits of this so called zero phonon line pumping (ZPL) for fundamental spatial mode cavity design and successfully increased extraction efficiency of the amplifier to > 28 %. A novel approach of high-power picosecond pulse compression using a space saving and easy-To-Align chirped-volume Bragg grating (CVBG) with high dispersion and high net efficiency approaching 88 % allowed us to build a robust and highly compact pulse compressor. A 100 kHz train of sub-1-milijoule pulses compressed bellow 2 ps (FWHM) in almost diffraction limited Gaussian beam has been successfully generated from this highly compact (900 x 1200 mm) thin-disk-based Yb:YAG regenerative amplifier.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Amplification of picosecond pulses to 100 W by an Yb:YAG thin-disk with CVBG compressor

Popis výsledku anglicky

High average power picosecond lasers have become an import tool in many fields of science and industry. We report on progress in development of 100 kHz, 100 W picosecond Yb:YAG thin disk laser amplifier with fundamental spatial mode at the HiLASE laser center. More efficient direct pumping to an upper laser level has been employed in order to suppress thermal loading of the thin disk active medium and to increase system stability. We also carefully analyzed and described all benefits of this so called zero phonon line pumping (ZPL) for fundamental spatial mode cavity design and successfully increased extraction efficiency of the amplifier to > 28 %. A novel approach of high-power picosecond pulse compression using a space saving and easy-To-Align chirped-volume Bragg grating (CVBG) with high dispersion and high net efficiency approaching 88 % allowed us to build a robust and highly compact pulse compressor. A 100 kHz train of sub-1-milijoule pulses compressed bellow 2 ps (FWHM) in almost diffraction limited Gaussian beam has been successfully generated from this highly compact (900 x 1200 mm) thin-disk-based Yb:YAG regenerative amplifier.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10306 - Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Proc. SPIE 9513, High-Power, High-Energy, and High-Intensity Laser Technology II

ISBN

978-1-62841-634-3

ISSN

0277-786X

e-ISSN

1996-756X

Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

—

Název nakladatele

SPIE

Místo vydání

Bellingham (stát Washington)

Místo konání akce

Prague

Datum konání akce

13. 4. 2015

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000356919900003