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Extraction of Enhanced, Ultrashort Laser Pulses from a Passive 10-MHz Stack-and-Dump Cavity

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Periodic dumping of ultrashort laser pulses from a passive multi-MHz repetition-rate enhancement cavity is a promising route towards multi-kHz repetition-rate pulses with Joule-level energies at an unparalleled average power. Here, we demonstrate this so-called stack-and-dump scheme with a 30-m-long cavity. Using an acousto-optic modulator, we extract pulses of 0.16 mJ at 30-kHz repetition rate, corresponding to 65 stacked input pulses, representing an improvement in three orders of magnitude over previously extracted pulse energies. The ten times longer cavity affords three essential benefits over former approaches. First, the time between subsequent pulses is increased to 100 ns, relaxing the requirements on the switch. Second, it allows for the stacking of strongly stretched pulses (here from 800 fs to 1.5 ns), thus mitigating nonlinear effects in the cavity optics. Third, the choice of a long cavity offers increased design flexibility with regard to thermal robustness, which will be crucial for future power scaling. The herein presented results constitute a necessary step towards stack-and-dump systems providing access to unprecedented laser parameter regimes.

This article is part of the topical collection “Enlightening the World with the Laser” - Honoring T. W. Hänsch guest edited by Tilman Esslinger, Nathalie Picqué, and Thomas Udem.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been partly supported by the European Research Council under the ERC Grant Agreement No. [617173] “ACOPS”, by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under contract 13N13167 “MEDUSA” and by the Fraunhofer and Max Planck cooperation program “MEGAS”.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany

    Sven Breitkopf, Stefano Wunderlich, Evgeny Shestaev, Thomas Gottschall, Andreas Tünnermann & Jens Limpert

  2. Active Fiber Systems GmbH, Wildenbruchstr. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany

    Stefano Wunderlich, Tino Eidam & Jens Limpert

  3. Helmholtz-Institute Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Evgeny Shestaev, Andreas Tünnermann & Jens Limpert

  4. Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Simon Holzberger, Henning Carstens & Ioachim Pupeza

  5. Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Am Coulombwall 1, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Simon Holzberger & Henning Carstens

  6. Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Albert-Einstein-Str. 7, 07745, Jena, Germany

    Andreas Tünnermann & Jens Limpert

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Breitkopf, S. et al. (2018). Extraction of Enhanced, Ultrashort Laser Pulses from a Passive 10-MHz Stack-and-Dump Cavity. In: Meschede, D., Udem, T., Esslinger, T. (eds) Exploring the World with the Laser. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5_40

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