Amplifying ps-laser radiation to high pulse-energies as well as a high average output power is a challenging task. In the past it was shown that thin-disk multipass amplifiers can achieve excellent properties for ultrashort laser pulses at over 1 kW of average power. Furthermore, systems combining multipass and regenerative thindisk amplifiers achieved 700 mJ of pulse energy at a repetition rate of 1000 Hz. These systems reaching such excellent properties are complex, extensive and typically need dozens of mirror-optics and the corresponding space associated with those. With the introduction of our monolithic wedged thin-disk (WTD) concept we were able to demonstrate small signal laser amplification of up to 10 (+10 dB) for cw-systems with a drastically reduced amount of mirror optics as well as space needed. By adding a redirecting mirror to introduce two multipasses in the WTD we were able to amplify a 2 ps-laser source with a small signal gain of up to 55 (+17 dB) and at 20W seed power by a factor of 5 (+7 dB) reaching up to 100W of output power.
Due to the low absorption of pump light in a thin disk laser, the pump light has to be redirected multiple times onto the active medium in order to achieve high pumping efficiency. Therefore, the pump optics in current systems require a large volume compared to the thin disk itself and multiple optics have to be aligned correctly with each other. Our wedged optical lasing chamber for ytterbium disks (WOLCYD) consists of an optical long-pass filter placed at a small angle directly in front of the thin disk. By this, an in-place multiplication of the number of pump passes is achieved. This results in a compact pump optic without the need of sophisticated alignment efforts. We demonstrate a laser oscillator setup and a laser amplifier setup on the basis of the WOLCYD geometry.
We report about the time-resolved confocal fluorescence microscope MicroTime 200, which is completely based on
TTTR format data acquisition and enables to perform very advanced FCS, FRET and FLIM analysis such as
Fluorescence Lifetime Correlation Spectroscopy (FLCS) or Two Focus FCS (2fFCS).
FLCS is a fundamental improvement of standard FCS overcoming many of its inherent limitations. The basic idea of
FLCS is a weighting of the detected photons based on the additional picosecond timing information (TCSPC start-stop
time) when using pulsed laser excitation. 2fFCS goes even further, combining Pulsed Interleaved Excitation
(PIE) with a time-gated FCS analysis. The basic implementation of 2fFCS uses two synchronized but interleaved
pulsed lasers of the same wavelength but of different polarisation to generate two close by excitation foci in a pre-determined
distance acting as a submicron ruler. In this case it it no longer necessary to have prior knowledge about
the size and shape of the confocal volume. Maintaining the information about the photon´s origin, the dual focus
data allows a precise calculation of absolute diffusion coefficients.
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