Marčiulionytė, V.; Banys, J.; Vengelis, J.; Tamošauskas, G.; Dubietis, A. All-Solid-State Post-Compression of Low-Energy Pulses at High Repetition Rate. Photonics2024, 11, 386.
Marčiulionytė, V.; Banys, J.; Vengelis, J.; Tamošauskas, G.; Dubietis, A. All-Solid-State Post-Compression of Low-Energy Pulses at High Repetition Rate. Photonics 2024, 11, 386.
Marčiulionytė, V.; Banys, J.; Vengelis, J.; Tamošauskas, G.; Dubietis, A. All-Solid-State Post-Compression of Low-Energy Pulses at High Repetition Rate. Photonics2024, 11, 386.
Marčiulionytė, V.; Banys, J.; Vengelis, J.; Tamošauskas, G.; Dubietis, A. All-Solid-State Post-Compression of Low-Energy Pulses at High Repetition Rate. Photonics 2024, 11, 386.
Abstract
We demonstrate a proof-of-principle of simple all-solid-state post-compression setup for low energy, high repetition rate laser pulses, where spectral broadening was performed using a combination of highly nonlinear bulk materials in a simple single pass geometry. 75 fs, 210 nJ pulses from an amplified 76 MHz, 15.7 W Yb:KGW oscillator after sequential spectral broadening in ZnS and YAG samples of 2 mm and 15 mm thickness, respectively, were compressed to 37 fs by means of Gires–Tournois interferometric mirrors. The post-compressed pulses with an average power of 11.47 W demonstrated reasonable spatial-spectral homogeneity of the beam with the spectral overlap parameter V>83% and good beam quality with Mx2=1.28 and My2=1.14.
Keywords
ultrafast laser science; pulse compression
Subject
Physical Sciences, Optics and Photonics
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