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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 33, Issue 23, Pages 2770-2772Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.002770
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [03ZIK052]
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We present what we believe to be the first terawatt diode-pumped laser employing single-crystalline Yb:CaF2 as the amplifying medium. A maximum pulse energy of 420 mJ at a repetition rate of 1 Hz was achieved by seeding with a stretched femtosecond pulse 2 ns in duration, preamplified to 40 mJ. After recompression, a pulse energy of 197 mJ and a duration of 192 fs were obtained, corresponding to a peak power of 1 TW. Furthermore, nanosecond pulses containing an energy of up to 905 mJ were generated without optical damage. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
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