High-energy, ceramic-disk Yb:LuAG laser amplifier

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Record Id	63528
Title	High-energy, ceramic-disk Yb:LuAG laser amplifier
Contributors	M Siebold, M Loeser, F Roeser, M Seltmann, G Harzendorf, I Tsybin, S Linke, S Banerjee (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), PD Mason (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), PJ Phillips (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), K Ertel (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), JC Collier (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), U Schramm
Abstract	We report the first short-pulse amplification results to several hundred millijoule energies in ceramic Yb:LuAG. We have demonstrated ns-pulse output from a diode-pumped Yb:LuAG amplifier at a maximum energy of 580 mJ and a peak optical-to-optical efficiency of 28\&\#x00025; at 550 mJ. In cavity dumped operation of a nanosecond oscillator we obtained 1 mJ at up to 100 Hz repetition rate. A gain bandwidth of 5.4 nm was achieved at room temperature by measuring the small-signal single-pass gain. Furthermore, we compared our results with Yb:YAG within the same amplifier system.
Organisation	CLF , CLF-LSD , STFC
Keywords	Laser amplifiers , Lasers, ytterbium , Lasers, diode-pumped
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Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Journal Article	Opt Express 20, no. 20 (2012): 21992-22000.	doi:10.1364/OE.20.021992	op_ex_vol20_p21992.pdf	2012