Large-aperture Ce/sup 3+/:LiCaAlF/sub 6/ power-amplifier module for the terawatt-class ultraviolet solid-state laser system

Author

Ono, Shintaro ; Suzuki, Yuya ; Kozeki, T. ; Murakami, H. ; Ohtake, H. ; Sarukura, N. ; Sato, Hikaru ; Machida, Shimon ; Shimamura, Kohei ; Fukuda, Toshio

Author_Institution

Inst. for Molecular Sci., Okazaki, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

90

Abstract

Coaxially- pumped large-aperture Ce:LiCaAlF/sub 6/ power-amplifier module for the TW ultraviolet CPA laser system is demonstrated to have 98-mJ output with 25% extraction efficiency. This performance of the gain module is sufficiently good for the TW-class UV CPA laser system. Such solid-stale laser development will open up a new category of UV high-peak-power laser systems for the real world applications.

Keywords

aluminium compounds; calcium compounds; cerium; lithium compounds; modules; solid lasers; ultraviolet sources; 25 percent; 98 mJ; Ce/sup 3+/:LiCaAlF/sub 6/ power laser amplifier module; LiCaAlF/sub 6/:Ce/sup 3+/; TW-class UV CPA laser system; UV high-peak-power laser system; extraction efficiency; terawatt-class ultraviolet solid-state laser system; ultraviolet CPA laser system; Absorption; Crystals; Frequency; Gain measurement; Hydrogen; Laser excitation; Performance evaluation; Polarization; Pump lasers; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033473

Filename

1033473