Construction and Characterization of an Yb:fiber Chirped Pulse Amplifier toward Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Experiments
Description
"This thesis documents the construction, characterization, optimization, and troubleshooting of an Yb:fiber chirped pulse amplifier (CPA) for ultrafast electron diffraction experiments. We have demonstrated the Yb:fiber CPA’s capacity to raise the oscillator pulse energy by at least two orders of magnitude from ∼ 2 nJ to ∼ 0.5 μJ, generating a clean and reliable