Twenty-watt average output power, picosecond thin-rod Yb:YAG regenerative chirped pulse amplifier with 200 mJ pulse energy

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Matsubara, Shinichi ^a   Tanaka, Motoharu ^a   Takama, Masaki ^a   Kawato, Sakae ^a   Kobayashi, Takao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; DIODE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFIER; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; LASER-DIODE-PUMPED; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; YB:YAG LASER;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 84884315531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2008.wb27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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