Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

JoVE Core

20 mJ, 1 ps Yb:YAG Thin-disk Regenerative Amplifier

Ayman Alismail^1,2, Haochuan Wang^1,3, Jonathan Brons³, Hanieh Fattahi^1,3

¹Department of Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, ²Physics and Astronomy Department, King Saud University, ³Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

A protocol for the operation of a high-energy, high-power optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier pump source based on an Yb:YAG thin-disk regenerative amplifier is presented here.