Nd:glass diode-pumped regenerative amplifier, multimillijoule short-pulse chirped-pulse-amplifier laser

Xavier Ribeyre (1) , Laurent Videau (1) , Arnold Migus (2) , Raymond Mercier (3) , Michel Mullot (3)

1 CESTA - Centre d'études scientifiques et techniques d'Aquitaine
2 LULI - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses
3 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Scop

We have built a diode-pumped Nd:glass regenerative amplifier that is able to produce energies up to 20 mJ within a 470-fs pulse duration at a 1-Hz repetition rate. We obtained this amplifier by using specific intracavity components such as a phase mirror and a birefringent filter to generate a large spatial mode and a large spectral width.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Xavier Ribeyre, Laurent Videau, Arnold Migus, Raymond Mercier, Michel Mullot. Nd:glass diode-pumped regenerative amplifier, multimillijoule short-pulse chirped-pulse-amplifier laser. Optics Letters, 2003, 18 (15), pp.1374-1376. ⟨10.1364/OL.28.001374⟩. ⟨hal-00875537⟩