High-repetition-rate picosecond pump laser based on a Yb:YAG disk amplifier for optical parametric amplification.
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.
Metzger
Thomas
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Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Garching, Germany. thomas.metzger@mpq.mpg.de
Schwarz
Alexander
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Teisset
Catherine Yuriko
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Sutter
Dirk
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Killi
Alexander
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Kienberger
Reinhard
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Krausz
Ferenc
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