Pulsed operation of a high average power Yb:YAG thin-disk multipass amplifier

i J - PULSED OPERATION OF A HIGH - POWER AMPLIFIER WITH COMPLEX LOAD IMPEDANCE

In several reports issued previously, a theoretical analysis has been given for the steady-state operation of a vacuum-tube power amplifier with a complex load impedance* This theoretical work was checked experimentally with amplifiers operating in the steady state at low power levels. One application of an amplifier which sometimes must operate with a complex load impedance is in naval sonar e...

Femtosecond thin-disk laser with 141 W of average power.

We present a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror mode-locked thin disk laser based on Yb:Lu(2)O(3) with an average power of 141 W and an optical-to-optical efficiency of more than 40%. The ideal soliton pulses have an FWHM duration of 738 fs, an energy of 2.4 microJ, and a corresponding peak power of 2.8 MW. The repetition rate was 60 MHz and the beam was close to the diffraction limit with...

Regenerative spectral and pulse shaping of high average power chirped pulse thin-rod Yb:YAG amplifier

Spectral gain narrowing of high-average power, regenerative chirped pulse thin-rod Yb:YAG amplifier was compensated by the regenerative spectral and pulse shaping technique. An average output power of 18 W was achieved at a repetition rate of 100 kHz with an output pulse width of below 1.2 ps. A wide spectral bandwidth of 2.5 nm was also observed. 2009 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (1...

Performance Simulation of Side-Pumped Slanted Faces of High Power Yb:YAGYAG Thin-Disk Laser

We present a novel slanted faces of thin-disk composite Yb:YAG YAG laser which is side-pumped by four non-symmetric hollow- ducts. The pump light distribution in the disk is modeled by using Monte-Carlo ray tracing method. The temperature distribution inside the crystal is calculated by taking into account either the concentration of Yb+3 ion or the different transmission of laser output coupl...

Ultrafast Yb:YAG thin-disk amplifier with multi-millijoule pulse energy for high-power frequency conversion