Title :
Development of a pump laser for a Multi-TW OPCPA component test laboratory
Author :
Shaikh, W. ; Critchlow, T. ; Boyle, A. ; Blake, Steven ; Chapman, Sean ; Frackewicz, A. ; Galimberti, M. ; Hancock, S. ; Musgrave, I. ; Pepler, D. ; Winstone, T. ; Hernandez-Gomez, C.
Author_Institution :
STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK
Abstract :
We present the laser architecture that will be constructed as a pump laser for a Multi-TW OPCPA component test laboratory using glass rod amplifiers and a regenerative amplifier seeded by a modulated fiber laser source.
Keywords :
optical glass; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pumping; solid lasers; glass rod amplifiers; laser architecture; modulated fiber laser source; multiTW OPCPA component test laboratory; optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers; pump laser; regenerative amplifier; Cavity resonators; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
