High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Volume. 7, Issue 1, 010000e8(2019)
High-power, Joule-class, temporally shaped multi-pass ring laser amplifier with two Nd:glass laser heads
Fig. 1. Schematic of the regenerative amplifier and multi-pass amplifier. FC, fiber beam collimator; TFP, thin-film polarizer; WP, half-wave plate; QWP, quarter-wave plate; FR, Faraday rotator; M1, M2, cavity concave mirrors; PC, Pockels cell; AMP, laser head with a diode-pumped Nd:glass rod in the center surrounded by laser diode bars; L, biconvex lens; HAP, hard aperture; BX5,
Fig. 2. (a) Outline of the laser heads cross-section pumped by four xenon lamps. (b) Two-dimensional small signal gain distribution of the xenon lamp laser head. (c) Outline measurement of the small signal gain and degree of depolarization. WP, half-wave plate; PBS, polarization beam splitter; L1, plano-concave lens with focal length of
Fig. 3. (a) The average small signal gain of the laser rods cross-section versus different pump power and (b) the integral DOP of the laser rods cross-section versus different pump power for the two laser heads, AMP1 and AMP2. The two images (Iout and Idep) in (b) are typical two-dimensional main beam intensity and depolarization beam intensity distribution in measurement.
Fig. 4. Simulation and experimental measurement of the thermal depolarization compensation. The depolarization output, main beam output and the DOP are shown in (a), (b) and (c), respectively. (d), (e), and (f) show that the experimental measurement produces three types of output.
Fig. 5. Energy output versus the number of round trips. The blue circles and the red curve correspond to the experimental and simulation results, respectively.
Fig. 6. (a) Near field and (b) far field profiles of the multi-pass laser amplifier output at 1 Hz, 0.969 J operation. Also shown are the
Fig. 7. Temporal pulse waveforms of the injection seeder source (Seeder), after passing through the regenerative amplifier (Regen), and after passing through the multi-pass amplifier (Multi-pass), with injected (a) square pulse shape and (b) pre-compensation pulse shape.
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Jiangtao Guo, Jiangfeng Wang, Hui Wei, Wenfa Huang, Tingrui Huang, Gang Xia, Wei Fan, Zunqi Lin. High-power, Joule-class, temporally shaped multi-pass ring laser amplifier with two Nd:glass laser heads[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2019, 7(1): 010000e8
Special Issue: HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS AND HIGH POWER LASERS
Received: May. 26, 2018
Accepted: Nov. 30, 2018
Published Online: Mar. 26, 2019
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