120 mJ, 1 kHz, picosecond laser at 515 nm

Autor: Murat Torun, Michael Greco, Roman Antipenkov, Karel Majer, Bedřich Rus, Boguslaw Tykalewicz, Robert Boge, Jack A. Naylon, Petr Strkula, Tomáš Mazanec, Petr Mazůrek, Pavel Bakule, Jakub Novák, Zbyněk Hubka, Martin Horáček, Emily Erdman, Jonathan T. Green, Václav Šobr
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Optics letters. 46(22)
ISSN: 1539-4794
Popis: We report on a 1 kHz, 515 nm laser system, based on a commercially available 230 W average power Yb:YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier, developed for pumping one of the last optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) stages of the Allegra laser system at ELI Beamlines. To avoid problems with self-focusing of picosecond pulses, the 1030 nm output pulses are compressed and frequency doubled with an LBO crystal in vacuum. Additionally, development of a thermal management system was needed to ensure stable phase matching conditions at high average power. The resulting 515 nm pulses have an energy of more than 120 mJ with SHG efficiency of 60% and an average RMS stability of 1.1% for more than 8 h.
Databáze: OpenAIRE