• High Power Laser Science and Engineering
  • Vol. 12, Issue 4, 04000e45 (2024)
Zichen Gao1,2, Jie Guo1,*, Yongxi Gao1,2, Yuguang Huang1,2..., Zhihua Tu1,3 and Xiaoyan Liang1,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 3School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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    DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2024.26 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zichen Gao, Jie Guo, Yongxi Gao, Yuguang Huang, Zhihua Tu, Xiaoyan Liang, "Efficient dual-stage all-solid-state post-compression for 100 W level ultrafast lasers," High Power Laser Sci. Eng. 12, 04000e45 (2024) Copy Citation Text show less

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    We demonstrate efficient and economical all-solid-state post-compression based on dual-stage periodically placed thin fused silica plates driven by a more than 100 W ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet Innoslab amplifier seeded by a fiber frontend. Not only is a more than eight-fold pulse compression with 94% transmission achieved, but also the pulse quality and spatial mode are improved, which can be attributed to the compensation for the residual high-order dispersion and the spatial mode self-cleaning effect during the nonlinear process. It enables a high-power ultrafast laser source with 64 fs pulse duration, 96 W average power at 175 kHz repetition rates and good spatiotemporal quality. These results highlight that this all-solid-state post-compression can overcome the bandwidth limitation of Yb-based lasers with exceptional efficiency and mitigate the spatiotemporal degradation originating from the Innoslab amplifier and fiber frontend, which provides an efficient and economical complement for the Innoslab laser system and facilitates this robust and compact combination as a promising scheme for high-quality higher-power few-cycle laser generation.
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    Zichen Gao, Jie Guo, Yongxi Gao, Yuguang Huang, Zhihua Tu, Xiaoyan Liang, "Efficient dual-stage all-solid-state post-compression for 100 W level ultrafast lasers," High Power Laser Sci. Eng. 12, 04000e45 (2024)
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