Abstract
We present what we believe to be the first terawatt diode-pumped laser employing single-crystalline as the amplifying medium. A maximum pulse energy of at a repetition rate of was achieved by seeding with a stretched femtosecond pulse in duration, preamplified to . After recompression, a pulse energy of and a duration of were obtained, corresponding to a peak power of . Furthermore, nanosecond pulses containing an energy of up to were generated without optical damage.
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