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A compact 20-pass thin-disk multipass amplifier stable against thermal lensing effects and delivering 330 mJ pulses with
Manuel Zeyen, Lukas Affolter, Marwan Abdou Ahmed +11
We report on an Yb:YAG thin-disk multipass amplifier delivering 50 ns long pulses at a central wavelength of 1030 nm with an energy of 330 mJ at a repetition rate of 100 Hz. The be…
Injection-seeded high-power Yb:YAG thin-disk laser stabilized by the Pound-Drever-Hall method
Manuel Zeyen, Lukas Affolter, Marwan Abdou Ahmed +12
We demonstrate an injection-seeded thin-disk Yb:YAG laser at 1030 nm, stabilized by the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method. We modified the PDH scheme to obtain an error signal free fr…
Pound-Drever-Hall locking scheme free from Trojan operating points
Manuel Zeyen, Lukas Affolter, Marwan Abdou Ahmed +11
The Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique is a popular method for stabilizing the frequency of a laser to a stable optical resonator or, vice versa, the length of a resonator to the fr…
Compact 20-pass thin-disk amplifier insensitive to thermal lensing
M. Zeyen, A. Antognini, K. Kirch +8
We present a multi-pass amplifier which passively compensates for distortions of the spherical phase front occurring in the active medium. The design is based on the Fourier transf…
Passive alignment stability and auto-alignment of multipass amplifiers based on Fourier transforms
Karsten Schuhmann, Klaus Kirch, Andreas Knecht +8
The stability properties of Fourier-based multipass amplifier to misalignments (tilts) of its optical components has been investigated. For this purpose, a method to quantify the s…
Multi-pass amplifiers with self-compensation of the thermal lens
Karsten Schuhmann, Klaus Kirch, Miroslaw Marszalek +7
We present a novel architecture for a multi-pass amplifier based on a succession of optical Fourier transforms and short propagations that shows a superior stability for variations…