Extending the narrow-bandwidth tunability of a thin disk Yb:YAG laser regenerative amplifier.
Appl Opt
; 49(6): 1020-4, 2010 Feb 20.
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ABSTRACT
We investigate the characteristics of a thin disk laser system based on the master oscillator-power amplifier design. The amplifier emits parasitic laser oscillation (PL) when the wavelength of the tunable narrow-bandwidth seed pulse is detuned more than 4 nm from the gain maximum at 1030 nm. For suppression of this unwanted PL, a birefringent filter (Lyot filter) was inserted into the amplifier cavity in order to generate wavelength selective losses, especially at the gain maximum of the YbYAG crystal. It is shown that the tunability range of the laser system can be extended by a factor of 4, when a properly chosen Lyot filter is applied and its angle of rotation is adapted to the seed wavelength of the system.
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