Abstract
We demonstrate a room-temperature Ti:Sapphire (Ti:Sa) amplifier that uses a cross pump-seed geometry (cross-thin-slab) to generate 30-mJ output pulses at 0.5-kHz repetition rate, and 25 mJ at 1 kHz when pumped by 100-mJ, 515-nm pulses from a diode-pumped Yb:YAG laser. The geometry allows to maintain a crystal temperature of ∼30°C using cooling water at 10°C. The amplifier is an attractive solution for use in the first stages of amplification in high peak and high average power chirped pulse amplification laser systems.
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