High average power lasers and applications (1)

[ALPS16-01(Invited)] Pulse compression of a thin-disk oscillator to GW-level peak power with nonlinear multipass cells

Semyon Goncharov¹, Kilian Fritsch², *Oleg Pronin¹
(1. Helmut Schmidt Universtität
2. n2-Photonics)

We report nonlinear broadening and pulse compression in two consecutive multipass cells based on dielectric mirrors. The 120 fs pulses at 14 MHz containing 12.8 μJ were compressed to 7.2 fs with 146 W average power.