Tabletop 300J 1ns Nd:glass laser with 3 diffraction-limited beam divergence

Author

Shaykin, A.A. ; Katin, E.V. ; Khazanov, E.A. ; Kirsanov, A.V. ; Luchinin, G.A. ; Shakov, A. N Mal ; Martyanov, M.A. ; Poteomkin, A.K.

Author_Institution

RAS, Nizhny Novgorod

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This paper describe tabletop 300J Nd:glass laser is used to pump a broadband chirped pulse optical parametric amplifier and constitutes part of a 0,5 PW femtosecond setup. Beam divergence was measured in the focal plane of a non-aberration objective with a focal distance of 3m. The measurements showed that 90% of beam energy was concentrated in an angle 35 murad. The second harmonic generator is made of a 22-mm-long KD*P crystal (oee type). The second harmonic energy was up to 190J.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; light diffraction; neodymium; optical glass; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; solid lasers; Jk:Nd; beam energy; broadband chirped pulse optical parametric amplifier; diffraction-limited beam divergence; distance 3 m; energy 300 J; nonaberration objective; second harmonic generator; size 22 mm; solid laser; time 1 ns; Chirp; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385850

Filename

4385850