Yb:YAG single crystal fiber power amplifier for femtosecond sources

Yb:YAG single crystal fiber power amplifier for femtosecond sources

We demonstrate a versatile femtosecond power amplifier using a Yb:YAG single crystal fiber operating from 10 kHz to 10 MHz. For a total pump power of 75 W, up to 30 W is generated from the double-pass power amplifier. At a repetition rate of 10 kHz, an output energy of 1 mJ is obtained after recompr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics letters 2013-01, Vol.38 (2), p.109-111
Hauptverfasser: Délen, Xavier, Zaouter, Yoann, Martial, Igor, Aubry, Nicolas, Didierjean, Julien, Hönninger, Clemens, Mottay, Eric, Balembois, François, Georges, Patrick
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Beams (radiation)
Crystal fibers
Femtosecond
Optics
Physics
Power amplifiers
Pulse duration
Pumps
Quality factor
Single crystals
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Zusammenfassung:We demonstrate a versatile femtosecond power amplifier using a Yb:YAG single crystal fiber operating from 10 kHz to 10 MHz. For a total pump power of 75 W, up to 30 W is generated from the double-pass power amplifier. At a repetition rate of 10 kHz, an output energy of 1 mJ is obtained after recompression. In this configuration, the pulse duration is 380 fs, corresponding to a peak power of 2.2 GW. The M2 beam quality factor is better than 1.1 for investigated parameters.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.38.000109