High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Colin Danson, Jianqiang Zhu
2024
Volume: 12 Issue 4
16 Article(s)
Zs. Major... U. Eisenbarth, B. Zielbauer, C. Brabetz, J. B. Ohland, Y. Zobus, S. Roeder, D. Reemts, S. Kunzer, S. Götte, D. Neidherr, J. Hornung, P. Kewes, D. Schumacher, D. Beck, P. Hesselbach, M. Malki, P. Neumayer, K. Weyrich, A. Tauschwitz and V. Bagnoud|Show fewer author(s)

The high-energy/high-intensity laser facility PHELIX of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany, has been in operation since 2008. Here, we review the current system performance, which is the result

Apr. 01, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e39 (2024)
  • Hao Zhang... Sasha Gilevich, Alan Miahnahri, Shawn Christopher Alverson, Axel Brachmann, Joseph Duris, Paris Franz, Alan Fry, Jack Hirschman, Kirk Larsen, Randy Lemons, Siqi Li, Brittany Lu, Agostino Marinelli, Mikael Martinez, Justin May, Erel Milshtein, Krishna Murari, Nicole Neveu, Joseph Robinson, John Schmerge, Linshan Sun, Theodore Vecchione, Chengcheng Xu, Feng Zhou and Sergio Carbajo|Show fewer author(s)

    This paper presents a comprehensive technical overview of the Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) photoinjector laser system, its first and foremost component. The LCLS-II photoinjector laser system serves as an upgrade to th

    Jun. 03, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e51 (2024)
  • Ruixian Li... Hanshuo Wu, Hu Xiao, Zilun Chen, Jinyong Leng, Liangjin Huang, Zhiyong Pan and Pu Zhou|Show fewer author(s)

    In this study, we investigated the influence of fiber parameters on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and identified a unique pattern of SRS evolution in the counter tandem pumping configuration. Our findings revealed that the SRS

    Apr. 26, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e38 (2024)
  • Guohao Fu... Guanzhong Li, Weilong Yu, Pei Li, Dan Li, Qirong Xiao, Mali Gong and Ping Yan|Show fewer author(s)

    To overcome Yb lasing, a kilowatt-level 1535 nm fiber laser is utilized to in-band pump an Er:Yb co-doped fiber (EYDF) amplifier. The output power of a 301 W narrow-linewidth EYDF amplifier operating at 1585 nm, with 3 dB bandwidt

    Apr. 03, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e40 (2024)
  • Jianlei Wang... Zihao Tong, Changsheng Zheng, Tianyi Du, Yongguang Zhao and Chun Wang|Show fewer author(s)

    We report on a high-efficiency, high-power tandem Ho:YAG single-crystal fiber (SCF) laser in-band pumped by a Tm-doped fiber laser at 1907 nm. In addition to the uniform heat distribution resulting from the large surface-to-volume

    May. 13, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e41 (2024)
  • Jianmei Shi... Chengao Yang, Yihang Chen, Tianfang Wang, Hongguang Yu, Juntian Cao, Zhengqi Geng, Zhiyuan Wang, Haoran Wen, Hao Tan, Yu Zhang, Dongwei Jiang, Donghai Wu, Yingqiang Xu, Haiqiao Ni and Zhichuan Niu|Show fewer author(s)

    Power scaling in conventional broad-area (BA) lasers often leads to the operation of higher-order lateral modes, resulting in a multiple-lobe far-field profile with large divergence. Here, we report an advanced sawtooth waveguide

    Apr. 26, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e42 (2024)
  • Huigang Wei... Dawei Yuan, Shaojun Wang, Ye Cui, Xiaohu Yang, Yanyun Ma, Zhe Zhang, Xiaohui Yuan, Jiayong Zhong, Neng Hua, Yutong Li, Jianqiang Zhu, Gang Zhao and Jie Zhang|Show fewer author(s)

    Double-cone ignition [Zhang et al., Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 378, 20200015 (2020)] was proposed recently as a novel path for direct-drive inertial confinement fusion using high-power lasers. In this scheme, plasma jets with both hig

    Apr. 29, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e43 (2024)
  • Xin Tian... Binyu Rao, Meng Wang, Xiaoming Xi, Zhixian Li, Zilun Chen, Hu Xiao, Pengfei Ma and Zefeng Wang|Show fewer author(s)

    In this paper, we have experimentally demonstrated a high-power and high-brightness narrow-linewidth fiber amplifier seeded by an optimized fiber oscillator. In order to improve the temporal stability, the fiber oscillator consist

    May. 09, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e44 (2024)
  • Zichen Gao... Jie Guo, Yongxi Gao, Yuguang Huang, Zhihua Tu and Xiaoyan Liang|Show fewer author(s)

    We demonstrate efficient and economical all-solid-state post-compression based on dual-stage periodically placed thin fused silica plates driven by a more than 100 W ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet Innoslab amplifier seede

    Aug. 27, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e45 (2024)
  • Z. He... J. Lütgert, M. G. Stevenson, B. Heuser, D. Ranjan, C. Qu and D. Kraus|Show fewer author(s)

    Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) has been widely used as a microstructure characterization technology. In this work, a fully connected dense forward network is applied to inversely retrieve the mean particle size and particle d

    May. 14, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e46 (2024)
  • Bin Ma... Shuang Guan, Dongyue Yan, Qiaofei Pan, Zhiqiang Hou, Ke Wang and Jiaqi Han|Show fewer author(s)

    This paper systematically investigated the impact mechanisms of proton irradiation, atomic oxygen irradiation and space debris collision, both individually and in combination, on the laser damage threshold and damage evolution cha

    Jun. 03, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e47 (2024)
  • Tongzhou Li... Huiyao Du, Zhong Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Qiushi Huang, Shengzhen Yi, Zhanshan Wang, Wei Wang and Jinren Sun|Show fewer author(s)

    The measurement of X-ray continuous emission from laser-driven plasma was achieved through multiple monochromatic imaging utilizing a multilayer mirror array. This methodology was exemplified by the development of an eight-channel

    May. 23, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e48 (2024)
  • Shuren Pan... Fenxiang Wu, Yang Zhao, Jiabing Hu, Zongxin Zhang, Yi Xu, Yuxin Leng, Ruxin Li and Efim Khazanov|Show fewer author(s)

    A novel method, combining an asymmetric four-grating compressor (AFGC) with pulse post-compression, is numerically demonstrated to improve the spatial uniformity of laser beams and hence to suppress small-scale self-focusing (SSSF

    May. 23, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e49 (2024)
  • Yu Dai... Haochen Gu, Ke Fang, Yihang Zhang, Chenglong Zhang, Yufeng Dong, Zhe Zhang, Xiaohui Yuan, Yutong Li and Jie Zhang|Show fewer author(s)

    In the double-cone ignition scheme of inertial confinement fusion, the head-on collision of two compressed fuel jets from the cone-tips forms an isochoric plasma, which is then heated suddenly by a MeV relativistic electron beam p

    Jun. 03, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e50 (2024)
  • Salman Noach... Yechiel Bach, Mulkan Adgo, Yehudit Garcia and Aharon J. Agranat|Show fewer author(s)

    A novel electro-optic deflector based on a quadratic electro-optical potassium lithium tantalate niobate (KLTN) crystal operating slightly above the ferroelectric phase transition is presented. The new deflection scheme was based

    Aug. 27, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e52 (2024)
  • Ultrafast optical probing is a widely used method of underdense plasma diagnostic. In relativistic plasma, the motion blur limits spatial resolution in the direction of motion. For many high-power lasers the initial pulse duration

    May. 10, 2024
  • Vol. 12 Issue 4 04000e53 (2024)
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