Ho:YLF amplifier with Ti:Sapphire frontend for pumping mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier

Krishna Murari, Fangjie Zhou, Yanchun Yin +5

We present a Ho:YLF Chirped-Pulse Amplification (CPA) laser for pumping a longwave infrared Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier (OPCPA) at a 1 kHz repetition rate. By utiliz…