Abstract

We report a diode-pumped Yb:YAG chirped-pulse oscillator that delivers a total pulse energy of 2.1 μJ, and analyze the temporal and spectral profiles of the laser pulse using a chip parameter C, which is calculated as C = 1.50. The group-delay dispersion needed for pulse compression is also estimated to be - 2.40 (ps^2).

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