23.7-W picosecond cryogenic-Yb:YAG multipass amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3955-3961

  Tokita, Shigeki ^a   Kawanaka, Junji ^b   Izawa, Yasukazu ^b   Fujita, Masayuki ^c   Kawashima, Toshiyuki ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BEAM QUALITY; CRYOGENICS; DIODES; LIQUID NITROGEN; SINGLE CRYSTALS; YTTERBIUM;

MULTIPASS AMPLIFIERS; OUTPUT POWER; PICOSECONDS; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34147105951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003955     Document Type: Article

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