High power scaling of a passively modelocked laser oscillator in a bounce geometry.

In this paper we present the first operation and power scaling of a modelocked Nd:YVO4 bounce laser oscillator at 1064 nm. We obtain up to 16.7 W of average output power from 38 W of pump power, in a continuous-wave modelocked pulse train with 30 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 78 MHz. We then use a Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA) configuration utilising another bounce amplifier, to achieve 60 W of modelocked output power.

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