Operation of the all-diode pumped multi-terawatt-laser POLARIS

Author

Hein, J. ; Bödefeld, R. ; Podleska, S. ; Hornung, M. ; Sävert, A. ; Wachs, R. ; Kessler, A. ; Wolf, M. ; Keppler, S. ; Nicolai, M. ; Schlenvoigt, H.-P. ; Schnepp, M. ; Hellwing, M. ; Kronhamn, F. ; Mampel, P. ; Körner, J. ; Heymann, J. ; Siebold, M. ; Kal

Author_Institution

Inst. of Opt. & Quantum Electron., Jena, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

After years of investigations, the development of diode-laser pumped glass amplifiers for the POLARIS-laser system at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena reached the 10-J level of daily operation. Pulses originating from a commercial fs-titanium:sapphire oscillator are amplified in the first stage Al, stretched to a ns-pulse duration in a 4-pass grating stretcher and further amplified in three consecutive stages A2 to A4. At the end of the chain they are re-compressed by a tiled grating compressor to a pulse duration of less than 170 fs (FWHM). In this presentation we summarize efforts made in recent years in order to provide a multi-terawatt laser output power.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; sapphire; semiconductor lasers; titanium; Al₂O₃:Ti; Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena; diode laser; grating stretcher; multiterawatt-laser POLARIS; pumped glass amplifiers; tiled grating compressor; titanium:sapphire oscillator; Diodes; Glass; Gratings; Operational amplifiers; Oscillators; Polarization; Power generation; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192754

Filename

5192754