title: High-repetition-rate picosecond pump laser based on a Yb:YAG disk amplifier for optical parametric amplification.
abstract: We report an optically synchronized picosecond pump laser for optical parametric amplifiers based on an Yb:YAG thin-disk amplifier. At 3 kHz repetition rate, pulse energies of 25 mJ with 1.6 ps pulse duration were achieved with an rms fluctuation in pulse energy of <0.7% by utilizing a broadly intermittent single-energy regime in the deterministic chaos of a continuously pumped regenerative amplifier.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Garching, Germany. thomas.metzger@mpq.mpg.de
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Metzger
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.forename: Catherine Yuriko
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Teisset
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sutter
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Killi
authors.forename: Reinhard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kienberger
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Krausz