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Spectral broadening of a burst-mode 100 W Nd-doped picosecond amplifier in a multi-pass cell device

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The pulse duration of a burst-mode 100 W Nd-doped picosecond amplifier is nonlinearly compressed in a multi-pass cell device. The spectral broadening and pulse compression are investigated theoretically. The spectral bandwidth is broadened from 0.13 to 3.28 nm experimentally, corresponding to a broadening factor of 25.2. The pulse duration is compressed from 14.2 to 0.99 ps, corresponding to a compression factor of 14.3. The compressed pulse duration of four successive pulses are theoretically estimated to be 0.98 ps, 1.47 ps, 1.86 ps, and 3.07 ps, respectively. The laser power after the grating pair compressor is 72 W. Therefore, the total efficiency of our system reaches 72%. The beam quality after the MPC unit is almost preserved with a M2 value of 1.38 × 1.40.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61925507, 62075227, 62205351, 22227901), Shanghai Rising-Star Program (21QA1410200), Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2020248).

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National Natural Science Foundation of China, 61925507, 62075227, 62205351, 22227901, Shanghai Rising-Star Program, 21QA1410200, Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2020248.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, 201800, China

    Jiajun Song, Yujie Peng, Guangxin Luo, Liya Shen, Jianyu Sun, Yinfen Liu & Yuxin Leng

  2. Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

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  3. School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China

    Liya Shen

  4. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Jianyu Sun & Yinfen Liu

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JS, YP and YL contributed to the design and experimental schemes. JS, GL, LS, YL and JS performed the experiments and are responsible for the data processing. JS, YP and LS contributed to write and edit the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Song, J., Peng, Y., Luo, G. et al. Spectral broadening of a burst-mode 100 W Nd-doped picosecond amplifier in a multi-pass cell device. Appl. Phys. B 129, 86 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-023-08032-9

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