High-power quasi-cw laser pulses via high-gain diode-pumped bulk amplifiers
High-power quasi-cw laser pulses via high-gain diode-pumped bulk amplifiers
By pulse-slicing from a cw laser output and then providing high gain amplification, one can obtain quasi-cw pulses at powers well in excess of those available from cw lasers. The use of this is demonstrated with a cw, additive-pulse-mode-locked Nd:YLF laser. Mode-locked pulse trains with an envelope of ~10µsec duration and repetition rate of 2kHz are amplified in a x20 gain, double-pass Nd:YLF bulk amplifier pumped by a 4W diode. Amplified power levels allow efficient single-pass frequency doubling in LBO followed by efficient synchronous pumping of an LBO optical parametric oscillator.
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Butterworth, S.D.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Moore, N.
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Friel, G.J.
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Hanna, D.C.
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October 1996
Butterworth, S.D.
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Clarkson, W.A.
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Moore, N.
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Friel, G.J.
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Hanna, D.C.
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Butterworth, S.D., Clarkson, W.A., Moore, N., Friel, G.J. and Hanna, D.C.
(1996)
High-power quasi-cw laser pulses via high-gain diode-pumped bulk amplifiers.
Optics Communications, 131 (1-3), .
(doi:10.1016/0030-4018(96)00267-2).
Abstract
By pulse-slicing from a cw laser output and then providing high gain amplification, one can obtain quasi-cw pulses at powers well in excess of those available from cw lasers. The use of this is demonstrated with a cw, additive-pulse-mode-locked Nd:YLF laser. Mode-locked pulse trains with an envelope of ~10µsec duration and repetition rate of 2kHz are amplified in a x20 gain, double-pass Nd:YLF bulk amplifier pumped by a 4W diode. Amplified power levels allow efficient single-pass frequency doubling in LBO followed by efficient synchronous pumping of an LBO optical parametric oscillator.
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Published date: October 1996
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Local EPrints ID: 78377
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78377
ISSN: 0030-4018
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G.J. Friel
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D.C. Hanna
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