Abstract
A diode-pumped Yb:YAG regenerative amplifier utilizing gain-narrowing has been developed. A chirped-seed pulse was amplified and compressed in the regenerative amplifier, simultaneously, which generated the picosecond pulses with ~8-mJ of energy without a pulse compressor.
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