**High-Power Diode-Pumped Short Pulse Lasers Based on Yb:KGW Crystals for Industrial Applications**

Guang-Hoon Kim, Juhee Yang, Byunghak Lee, Bosu Jeong, Sergey Chizhov, Elena Sall, Vladimir Yashin and Uk Kang

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/64571

#### **Abstract**

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32 High Energy and Short Pulse Lasers

A diode-pumped, ultrafast Yb:KYW laser system utilizing chirped-pulse amplifica‐ tion (CPA) in a dual-slab regenerative amplifier (RA) with spectral shaping of seeding pulse from a master oscillator (MO) has been developed. A train of compressed pulses with pulse length of 181 fs, repetition rate up to 500 kHz, and average power exceed‐ ing 15 W after compression and pulse picker was achieved.

**Keywords:** lasers, diode-pumped, laser amplifiers, solid-state lasers, ytterbium lasers, ultrafast lasers, mode-locked lasers, ultrafast lasers
