We report on a kW-class ultrafast laser amplifier emitting sub-300 fs pulses with a pulse peak power exceeding 1 GW. It is based on the direct amplification of 260 fs pulses in a versatile thin-disk multipass amplifier which provides fast modulation of the amplified beam on the workpiece by the implementation of a novel and robust polarization multiplexing scheme for the seed beam that is launched into the amplifier. Furthermore, the laser can be operated in a single-pulse or burst mode with a variable number of pulses per burst. Second harmonic conversion of the amplified beam by means of a lithium triborate crystal additionally led to an output power of up to 282 W in the green spectral range.
%0 Journal Article
%1 ROCKER2020125159
%A Röcker, Christoph
%A Loescher, André
%A Negel, Jan-Philipp
%A Delaigue, Martin
%A Morin, Franck
%A Hönninger, Clemens
%A Mottay, Eric
%A Villeval, Philippe
%A Holvoet, Adrien
%A Lupinski, Dominique
%A Graf, Thomas
%A Ahmed, Marwan Abdou
%D 2020
%J Optics Communications
%K myown HighPower Peer Laser from:christophrcker Amplifier Ultrafast
%P 125159
%R https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2019.125159
%T Direct amplification of sub-300 fs pulses in a versatile thin-disk multipass amplifier
%U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030401819311460
%V 460
%X We report on a kW-class ultrafast laser amplifier emitting sub-300 fs pulses with a pulse peak power exceeding 1 GW. It is based on the direct amplification of 260 fs pulses in a versatile thin-disk multipass amplifier which provides fast modulation of the amplified beam on the workpiece by the implementation of a novel and robust polarization multiplexing scheme for the seed beam that is launched into the amplifier. Furthermore, the laser can be operated in a single-pulse or burst mode with a variable number of pulses per burst. Second harmonic conversion of the amplified beam by means of a lithium triborate crystal additionally led to an output power of up to 282 W in the green spectral range.
@article{ROCKER2020125159,
abstract = {We report on a kW-class ultrafast laser amplifier emitting sub-300 fs pulses with a pulse peak power exceeding 1 GW. It is based on the direct amplification of 260 fs pulses in a versatile thin-disk multipass amplifier which provides fast modulation of the amplified beam on the workpiece by the implementation of a novel and robust polarization multiplexing scheme for the seed beam that is launched into the amplifier. Furthermore, the laser can be operated in a single-pulse or burst mode with a variable number of pulses per burst. Second harmonic conversion of the amplified beam by means of a lithium triborate crystal additionally led to an output power of up to 282 W in the green spectral range.},
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author = {Röcker, Christoph and Loescher, André and Negel, Jan-Philipp and Delaigue, Martin and Morin, Franck and Hönninger, Clemens and Mottay, Eric and Villeval, Philippe and Holvoet, Adrien and Lupinski, Dominique and Graf, Thomas and Ahmed, Marwan Abdou},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/26fb16db1465d00fca3bc47044f6d888d/ifsw},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2019.125159},
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issn = {0030-4018},
journal = {Optics Communications},
keywords = {myown HighPower Peer Laser from:christophrcker Amplifier Ultrafast},
pages = 125159,
timestamp = {2020-01-15T13:08:50.000+0100},
title = {Direct amplification of sub-300 fs pulses in a versatile thin-disk multipass amplifier},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030401819311460},
volume = 460,
year = 2020
}
