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High-power DUV picosecond pulse laser with a gain-switched-LD-seeded MOPA and large CLBO crystal

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We report the generation of a 266 nm deep ultraviolet (DUV) picosecond pulse with an average output power of 14 W by the fourth-harmonic generation (FHG) from two consecutive frequency-doubling stages of a 1064 nm pulse based on a gain-switched-laser-diode (LD)-seeded hybrid fiber/solid-state master oscillator and power amplifier (MOPA) system. Through the gain-switched operation of a narrow-spectral-linewidth distributed-feedback laser diode and by using a Yb-doped fiber and a two-stage ${\rm Nd}:{{\rm YVO}_4}$ solid-state amplifier, we achieved an average power of 46.5 W near the Fourier transform limit for a 13 ps pulse with a repetition rate of 200 kHz. The narrow linewidth pulse characteristics enabled highly efficient frequency conversion, and the efficiency of conversion from 532 to 266 nm was 54%, and from 1064 to 266 nm was 31%. The beam quality factor ${M^2}$ of the generated DUV pulse was below 1.2. The highly efficient FHG process resulted in appeasing thermal stress caused by nonlinear absorption in the crystal, and more than 5000 h of continuous operation were achieved without any power down or beam profile degradation.

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