100 W Dual-Output Thin Disk Laser for Picosecond OPCPA Pumping

Abstract

Thin disk regenerative amplifiers have suitable characteristics to pump picosecond OPCPA. By optimizing the trigger pulse to the MZM, a dual-output laser operating at 100 W, 1 kHz repetition rate, compressed to the transform limit is reported.

Coherent combining of broadband pulses after free space optical parametric amplification

“…One of the OPCPA systems is used as a front-end of the "L1-Allegra" [16], which for simplicity here will be called L1. The other one is used as an auxiliary output, synchronized with L1-Allegra with femtosecond precision [17]. This system will be called F-Sync from "Femtosecond -Synchronization".…”

Coherent combining of broadband pulses after free space optical parametric amplification

“…One of the OPCPA systems is used as a front-end of the "L1-Allegra" [16], which for simplicity here will be called L1. The other one is used as an auxiliary output, synchronized with L1-Allegra with femtosecond precision [17]. This system will be called F-Sync from "Femtosecond -Synchronization".…”