We report a diode-pumped rod-type Yb:YAG laser amplifier operating at 1 kHz.Cryogenic cooling method was adopted to make the Yb:YAG crystal work with four-level behavior.A single-frequency fiber laser acts as the seed...We report a diode-pumped rod-type Yb:YAG laser amplifier operating at 1 kHz.Cryogenic cooling method was adopted to make the Yb:YAG crystal work with four-level behavior.A single-frequency fiber laser acts as the seed in an actively Q-switched Yb:YAG oscillator.The resonator delivers 5.75-mJ pulses at 1 kHz with a pulse duration of approximately 40 ns.The pulses were amplified to 61 mJ in a four-pass rod-type Yb:YAG amplifier with optical-to-optical efficiency of 24%in the main amplifier.The M^(2)parameter of the output laser is<1.4.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National National Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12004262 and 62005184)the Natural Science Foundation of Top Talent of SZTU(Grant No.202024555101039)。
文摘We report a diode-pumped rod-type Yb:YAG laser amplifier operating at 1 kHz.Cryogenic cooling method was adopted to make the Yb:YAG crystal work with four-level behavior.A single-frequency fiber laser acts as the seed in an actively Q-switched Yb:YAG oscillator.The resonator delivers 5.75-mJ pulses at 1 kHz with a pulse duration of approximately 40 ns.The pulses were amplified to 61 mJ in a four-pass rod-type Yb:YAG amplifier with optical-to-optical efficiency of 24%in the main amplifier.The M^(2)parameter of the output laser is<1.4.