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OPCPA pump laser based on a regenerative amplifier with volume Bragg grating spectral filtering

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A novel Nd:YVO4−based regenerative amplifier system operating in the picosecond regime featuring a volume Bragg grating (VBG) as an intracavity spectral narrowing element is described. This compact amplifier provides pulses with duration of ∼85 ps operating at repetition rates ranging from single shot to 10 kHz. The VBG is used to passively tailor the pulse duration and achieve transform-limited pulses with 50 pm FWHM of spectral linewidth. A Gaussian output beam profile is obtained from the amplifier at all repetition rates. The intracavity VBG also guarantees a high spectral purity by efficiently preventing the build-up of out-of-band ASE. The spectral, spatial and temporal properties of this amplifier make it highly suitable for OPCPA pumping applications.

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  1. Townes Laser Institute, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL, 32816, USA

    M. Hemmer, A. Vaupel & M. Richardson

  2. Department of Computer Science and Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Cauerstr. 6, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    M. Wohlmuth

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Hemmer, M., Vaupel, A., Wohlmuth, M. et al. OPCPA pump laser based on a regenerative amplifier with volume Bragg grating spectral filtering. Appl. Phys. B 106, 599–603 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4843-2

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