200W output power at 10ps from a scalable Z-slab Nd:YAG laser

Young Key Kwon; Simon P. Chard; Nick Hay; Aleksej M. Rodin; Michael Bass; Ying Chen; Hong Shu; Scott Webster

doi:10.1117/12.2041241

28 February 2014 200W output power at 10ps from a scalable Z-slab Nd:YAG laser

Young Key Kwon, Simon P. Chard, Nick Hay, Aleksej M. Rodin, Michael Bass, Ying Chen, Hong Shu, Scott Webster

Proceedings Volume 8959, Solid State Lasers XXIII: Technology and Devices; 89590V (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041241
Event: SPIE LASE, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate power scaling of an Nd:YAG picosecond master oscillator power amplifier system to over 200 W. The ‘z-slab’ amplifier design is a power scalable, edge-pumped zigzag slab amplifier architecture, and it is demonstrated here in two alternative multi-stage implementations at 1064 nm using a picosecond seed laser. In a simple design, an average power of 225 W was generated with up to 450 μJ pulse energy at 11 ps pulse duration. In a compact multi-pass design, 150 W was generated with M² < 1.75.

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Young Key Kwon, Simon P. Chard, Nick Hay, Aleksej M. Rodin, Michael Bass, Ying Chen, Hong Shu, and Scott Webster "200W output power at 10ps from a scalable Z-slab Nd:YAG laser", Proc. SPIE 8959, Solid State Lasers XXIII: Technology and Devices, 89590V (28 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041241

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