Conveners
SSL 4 Short pulse generation & amplification
- Nicolaie Pavel (National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Magurele, Romania)
We present a platform for high-power dual comb sources from a single spatially-multiplexed oscillator cavity. We demonstrate femtosecond pulses and Watt-level average output powers with low-noise operation over short and long timescales. Our 80 MHz version is ideal for pump-probe measurements, while our 1 GHz version supports coherent dual-comb spectroscopy.
We designed and tested phase mirrors for intra and extra-cavity flat-top beam shaping of high energy Ytterbium systems. The concept can be applied as a new approach to perform spectrally homogeneous thin-plate post-compression of picosecond pulses from J-level Yb:YAG systems.
On the way to developing 100W and 10 mJ class laser we demonstrate a hybrid laser system based on fiber laser seed source and chirped pulse amplification in free-space Yb:YAG cascade. The system is capable of delivering 13 mJ energy 1 ps duration pulses at 20 Hz repetition rate.
A compact Kerr-lens mode-locked thin-disk oscillator delivering 110 MW output peak power, the highest among all oscillators, is reported. A pulse train with a repetition rate of 14 MHz carries 115 fs long, 14.5 uJ pulses resulting in 203 W of average power.
We present first results of our research towards ultra-short pulse generation in the sub-100 ps range based on cascaded gain-switched diode-pumped vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers. In particular, we focus on the surface emitters themselves and on the dependence of the output parameters on the pump wavelength and the pump fluence.
We report the first mode-locked operation of a bulk laser based on Ho:CALGO. The laser generates up to 8.7 W of average power and 369-fs pulses duration at 2118 nm, representing the highest avergae power achieved from a mode-locked bulk lasers in the 2-3 µm wavelength region.
The conversion of longitudinal mode-locked beam to a transversal mode-locked beam is equivalent to the conversion of temporal pulses to a spatiotemporal oscillation. This is achieved by matching the frequency spacing of incident phase-locked longitudinal modes and the transverse mode spacing of an optical cavity.
We report the developement of a sub-ps Yb:YAG thin disk regenerative amplifier delivering 50 mJ at 1 kHz with an optical-optical efficiency of 18%. We discuss how to address thermal issues in the BBO Pockel’s crystal to further increase the output energy up to 100 mJ.
