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LED-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser system operating at 100 Hz based on a multipass amplifier

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The LED-pumping technology is used for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, to develop a complete master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system including a multipass amplifier. A pumping head using an original slab architecture is developed integrating a Cr:LiSAF slab pumped by 2112 blue LEDs via a Ce:YAG luminescent concentrator. The slab configuration enables the reaching of a large number of passes—up to 22—together with access to efficient cooling, allowing for a repetition rate scale up. For 22 passes, the amplifier delivers pulses with energy up to 2.4 mJ at 10-Hz repetition rate with a gain of 4.36 at 825 nm. A complete study of the MOPA is described, concluding in nearly constant performances versus the repetition rate, up to 100 Hz.
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hal-04322138 , version 1 (04-12-2023)

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Hussein Taleb, Catherine Le Blanc, Elio Thellier, Pierre Pichon, Frédéric Druon, et al.. LED-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser system operating at 100 Hz based on a multipass amplifier. Optics Letters, 2022, 47 (14), pp.3543-3546. ⟨10.1364/OL.465115⟩. ⟨hal-04322138⟩
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