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Opt Lett
; 41(16): 3840-3, 2016 Aug 15.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27519103
RESUMO
We present a compact femtosecond nonlinear Yb:YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier delivering pulses carried at a wavelength of 1030 nm with an average power of >200 W at a repetition rate of 100 kHz and an energy noise value of 0.46% (rms) in a beam with a propagation factor of M2<1.4. The amplifier is seeded with bandwidth-limited subpicosecond pulses without temporal stretching. We give estimates for the nonlinear parameters influencing the system and show that chirped mirrors compress the 2 mJ pulses to a near-bandwidth-limited duration of 210 fs.