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Overcoming bifurcation instability in high-repetition-rate Ho:YLF regenerative amplifiers

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Krötz,  Peter
Miller Group, Atomically Resolved Dynamics Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany;

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Chatterjee,  Gourab
Miller Group, Atomically Resolved Dynamics Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany;

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Miller,  R. J. Dwayne
Miller Group, Atomically Resolved Dynamics Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany;
The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany;
Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1A7, Canada;

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Krötz, P., Ruehl, A., Chatterjee, G., Calendron, A.-L., Murari, K., Cankaya, H., et al. (2015). Overcoming bifurcation instability in high-repetition-rate Ho:YLF regenerative amplifiers. Optics Letters, 40(23), 5427-5430. doi:10.1364/OL.40.005427.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0029-41B6-E
Abstract
We demonstrate a Ho:YLF regenerative amplifier (RA) overcoming bifurcation instability and consequently achieving high extraction energies of 6.9 mJ at a repetition rate of 1 kHz with pulse-to-pulse fluctuations of 1.1%. Measurements of the output pulse energy, corroborated by numerical simulations, identify an operation point (OP) that allows high-energy pulse extraction at a minimum noise level. Complete suppression of the onset of bifurcation was achieved by gain saturation after each pumping cycle in the Ho:YLF crystal via lowering the repetition rate and cooling the crystal. Even for moderate cooling, a significant temperature dependence of the Ho:YLF RA performance was observed.