1 petawatt OPCPA laser in Russia: Status and expectations

Author

Shaykin, A.A. ; Freidman, G.I. ; Garanin, S.G. ; Ginzburg, V.N. ; Katin, E.V. ; Kedrov, A.I. ; Khazanov, E.A. ; Kirsanov, A.V. ; Lozhkarev, V.V. ; Luchinin, G.A. ; Vov, L. V L ; Shakov, A. N Mal ; Martyanov, M.A. ; Osin, V.A. ; Palashov, O.V. ; Poteomkin,

Author_Institution

Dept. of Nonlinear Dynamics & Opt., Inst. of Appl. Phys. RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This study reports the construction of a Russian OPCPA-based laser complex. In this system, a 100 TW laser is taken as a front-end system, supplemented with a KD*P crystal with clear aperture of 20times20 cm, as another cascade of parametric amplification. The pump laser comes from one channel of the "Luch" facility with 2 kJ output pulse energy at the wavelength of 1054 nm. In addition, a 1 kJ pulse with 2.3 ns duration at the second harmonic is used to pump the final stage of the parametric amplifier. Data reveals that the maximum energy obtained in a chirped pulse is more than 100 J. Autocorrelation function on compression is also shown. If the pulse shape is regarded to be Gaussian, then its pulse duration is 70 fs, which corresponds to the power of 1 PW at compressor output. Lastly, beam divergence shows a value close to the diffraction limit.

Keywords

chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; hydrogen compounds; laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; optical pumping; potassium compounds; solid lasers; Gaussian pulse shape; KD*P crystal; KDP; OPCPA laser; Russia; autocorrelation function; beam divergence; chirped pulse; clear aperture; diffraction limit; energy 1 kJ; energy 2 kJ; front-end system; parametric amplification; parametric amplifier; power 1 PW; power 100 TW; pump laser; size 20 cm; time 2.3 ns; time 70 fs; wavelength 1054 nm; Apertures; Autocorrelation; Chirp; Laser excitation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse shaping methods; Pump lasers; Quantum cascade lasers;

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.2009.5196316

Filename

5196316