This paper describes a demonstration of a high power 888 nm end-pumped Nd:YVO4 picosecond regenerative amplifier operated at high repetition rate. By utilizing an all-fiber mode-locking picosecond laser as seed source and 888 nm continuous wave (CW) as pumping source, we obtained regenerative amplified output at 1064.07 nm with spectrum width 0.16 nm, pulse width of 38 ps, maximum power of 21 W, and the repetition rate is continuously adjustable from 300 to 500 kHz. The regenerative amplifier has high power stability and high compact structure.
We report on a high energy laser diode (LD) side-continuous-pumped Nd:YAG (yttrium aluminum garnet) picosecond regenerative amplifier. The mode-locking picosecond oscillator is used as seed source with 31.3 ps pulse width, 150 mW average power and 1064.4 nm center wavelengths at the repetition frequency of 86 MHz. For the amplifier system, average output power of 6.4 W and 10.8 W are achieved at repetition frequency of 2 kHz and 4.5 kHz, which corresponds to output pulse energy of 3.2 mJ and 2.4 mJ respectively. The regenerative amplifier designed has high compact and high stability.
Detail studies on the 888 nm laser diode (LD) pumped Nd:YVO4 crystal was reported to reduce the absorption coefficient
and improve thermal performance of the laser, which could generate high power mode-locked pulses output easily. The
mode-locking operation was induced by a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). When pumping power is
65 W, the maximum output power of 20 W is obtained at repetition rate of 63.5 MHz with the optical-optical conversion
efficiency of 30.8% and pulse width of 45 ps.
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