Nd:glass diode-pumped regenerative amplifier, multimillijoule short-pulse chirped-pulse-amplifier laser.
We have built a diode-pumped Nd:glass regenerative amplifier that is able to produce energies up to 20 mJ within a 470-fs pulse duration at a 1-Hz repetition rate. We obtained this amplifier by using specific intracavity components such as a phase mirror and a birefringent filter to generate a large spatial mode and a large spectral width.
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Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Centre l'Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques d'Aquitaine, B.P. 2, 33114 Le Barp, France. ribeyre@bordeaux.cea.fr
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Migus
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Mercier
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