Generation of 220 mJ nanosecond pulses at a 10 Hz repetition rate with excellent beam quality in a diode-pumped Yb:YAG MOPA system

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1111-1113

  Wandt, Christoph ^a   Klingebiel, Sandro ^a   Siebold, Mathias ^a,b   Major, Zsuzsanna ^a   Hein, Joachim ^b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a   Karsch, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; YTTERBIUM;

DIODE-PUMPED; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; NANOSECOND PULSE; OUTPUT ENERGY; Q-SWITCHED; REPETITION RATE; YB:YAG CRYSTAL;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 44949183532     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.001111     Document Type: Article

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