Abstract

Slab gain media with large aspect ratios were difficult to be adopted in ultrafast regenerative amplifiers (RAs) due to the obstacle of mode matching with the seed beam. We proposed that an unstable cavity could be employed to solve this difficulty by taking the advantage of its large fundamental mode volume. In this way, an $\mathrm{Nd}\text{:}{\mathrm{YVO}}_4$ slab-based picosecond RA has been successfully demonstrated using a stable-unstable hybrid cavity. The maximum average output power of 10.5 W was achieved at the repetition rate of 10 kHz. The beam quality factor $M^2$ was measured to be 1.54 in the stable direction and 2.26 in the unstable direction.

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