Advanced pulsed thin disk laser sources

Abstract

Advanced pulsed thin disk laser sources based on several pulse generation schemes, including regenerative amplification as well as cavity-dumping, will be presented. These sources are able to produce pulse energies in the multi-millijoule range at repetition rates of up to several 100 kHz, resulting in average output powers in excess of 100 W. Also the efficient intra-cavity frequency conversion of these sources will be discussed.