PICOSECOND LASER SYSTEM WITH CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION IN A NEODYMIUM GLASS

Authors
BORODIN VG KOMAROV VM KRASOV SV MALINOV VA MIGEL VM NIKITIN NV POPOV VS POTAPOV SL CHARUKHCHEV AV CHERNOV VN
Citation
Vg. Borodin et al., PICOSECOND LASER SYSTEM WITH CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION IN A NEODYMIUM GLASS, Quantum electronics, 28(2), 1998, pp. 108-111
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Quantum electronics → ACNP
ISSN journal
10637818
Volume
28
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
108 - 111
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7818(1998)28:2<108:PLSWCP>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
An investigation was made of a laser (Nd:YLF/Nd glass) laser system ge nerating pulses of 1.5 ps duration and up to 0.4 TW power at the 1053 nm wavelength. Chirped pulse amplification in a multipass amplifier wa s used. The amplifier had a misaligned conjugate cavity and a net gain of similar to 4 X 10(6), as well as two additional amplifiers with an output aperture 20 mm in diameter. After optimisation of the paramete rs of this multipass amplifier the angular divergence of the output ra diation was close to the diffraction limit and the average intensity w as up to similar to 10(17) W cm(-2) in a focused beam. This laser syst em was developed as the front-end component of a multiterawatt laser f acility under construction for research on the interaction of ultrastr ong fields with matter.