High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Colin Danson, Jianqiang Zhu

A snapshot of a DFT-MD simulation of isochoricaly heated warm dense beryllium at a temperature of 12 eV. Shown are the position of the nuclei (green spheres) and several isosurfaces of the electronic density ranging from core electrons to valence electrons.

2018
Volume: 6 Issue 4
13 Article(s)
Fibres for High Power Lasers
Yingying Wang, and Seongwoo Yoo

In 2018, the journal High Power Laser Science and Engineering produced a Special Issue on Fibres for High Power Lasers. Nowadays, fibre-based laser sources have found extensive applications both in industry and in scientific resea

High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Nov. 05, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e54 (2018)
  • FOCUS ON NATIONAL LABORATORY OF HIGH POWER LASER AND PHYSICS, SIOM
    Focus on National Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, SIOM
    Jianqiang Zhu... Jian Zhu, Xuechun Li, Baoqiang Zhu, Weixin Ma, Xingqiang Lu, Wei Fan, Zhigang Liu, Shenlei Zhou, Guang Xu, Guowen Zhang, Xinglong Xie, Lin Yang, Jiangfeng Wang, Xiaoping Ouyang, Li Wang, Dawei Li, Pengqian Yang, Quantang Fan, Mingying Sun, Chong Liu, Dean Liu, Yanli Zhang, Hua Tao, Meizhi Sun, Ping Zhu, Bingyan Wang, Zhaoyang Jiao, Lei Ren, Daizhong Liu, Xiang Jiao, Hongbiao Huang and Zunqi Lin|Show fewer author(s)

    In this paper, we review the status of the multifunctional experimental platform at the National Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics (NLHPLP). The platform, including the SG-II laser facility, SG-II 9th beam, SG-II upgrade

    High Power Laser Science and Engineering
    Nov. 16, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e55 (2018)
  • HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS AND HIGH POWER LASERS
    High Energy Density Physics and High Power Lasers
    Xiao Liang... Xinglong Xie, Jun Kang, Qingwei Yang, Hui Wei, Meizhi Sun and Jianqiang Zhu|Show fewer author(s)

    We present the design and experiment of a broadband optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier (OPCPA) which provides high conversion efficiency and good beam quality at 808 nm wavelength. Using a three-dimensional spatial and tem

    High Power Laser Science and Engineering
    Nov. 22, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e58 (2018)
  • High Energy Density Physics and High Power Lasers
    Jingui Ma... Peng Yuan, Jing Wang, Guoqiang Xie, Heyuan Zhu and Liejia Qian|Show fewer author(s)

    Pulse contrast is a crucial parameter of high peak-power lasers since the prepulse noise may disturb laser–plasma interactions. Contrast measurement is thus a prerequisite to tackle the contrast challenge in high peak-power lasers

    High Power Laser Science and Engineering
    Dec. 18, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e61 (2018)
  • High Energy Density Physics and High Power Lasers
    Samuel Paul David... Venkatesan Jambunathan, Antonio Lucianetti and Tomas Mocek|Show fewer author(s)

    Development of high energy laser sources with nanosecond pulses at several hertz values for repetition rate has been very attractive in recent years due to their great potential for practical applications. With the recent advancem

    High Power Laser Science and Engineering
    Dec. 18, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e62 (2018)
  • High Energy Density Physics and High Power Lasers
    Paul Mason... Saumyabrata Banerjee, Jodie Smith, Thomas Butcher, Jonathan Phillips, Hauke Höppner, Dominik Möller, Klaus Ertel, Mariastefania De Vido, Ian Hollingham, Andrew Norton, Stephanie Tomlinson, Tinesimba Zata, Jorge Suarez Merchan, Chris Hooker, Mike Tyldesley, Toma Toncian, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Chris Edwards and John Collier|Show fewer author(s)

    In this paper we review the design and development of a 100 J, 10 Hz nanosecond pulsed laser, codenamed DiPOLE100X, being built at the Central Laser Facility (CLF). This 1 kW average power diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) is

    High Power Laser Science and Engineering
    Dec. 19, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e65 (2018)
  • LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS
    Laboratory Astrophysics
    Katerina Falk

    The study of structure, thermodynamic state, equation of state (EOS) and transport properties of warm dense matter (WDM) has become one of the key aspects of laboratory astrophysics. This field has demonstrated its importance not

    High Power Laser Science and Engineering
    Nov. 29, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e59 (2018)
  • Research Articles
    Rao Li... Youen Jiang, Zhi Qiao, Canhong Huang, Wei Fan, Xuechun Li and Zunqi Lin|Show fewer author(s)

    Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in fibers for high-power lasers can induce significant frequency modulation to amplitude modulation (FM-to-AM) conversion. However, existing techniques are not sufficiently flexible to achieve ef

    Oct. 23, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e53 (2018)
  • Chengmin Lei... Zilun Chen, Yanran Gu, Hu Xiao and Jing Hou|Show fewer author(s)

    Compared with end pumping fiber combiner, one of the advantages for side pumping combiner is the unlimited pumping points, which means multi-point or cascaded side pumping can be realized. However, the loss mechanism of the cascad

    Nov. 16, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e56 (2018)
  • Pengfei Ma... Hu Xiao, Daren Meng, Wei Liu, Rumao Tao, Jinyong Leng, Yanxing Ma, Rongtao Su, Pu Zhou and Zejin Liu|Show fewer author(s)

    An all-fiberized and narrow-bandwidth master oscillator power amplification (MOPA) system with record output power of 4 kW level and slope efficiency of 78% is demonstrated. Tandem pumping strategy is tentatively introduced into t

    Nov. 16, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e57 (2018)
  • Daewoong Park... Jihoon Jeong and Tae Jun Yu|Show fewer author(s)

    We have optimized the input pulse width and injection time to achieve the highest possible output pulse energy in a double-pass laser amplifier using two Nd:YAG rods. For this purpose, we have extended the Frantz–Nodvik equation b

    Dec. 18, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e60 (2018)
  • F. Zhang... Z. G. Deng, L. Q. Shan, Z. M. Zhang, B. Bi, D. X. Liu, W. W. Wang, Z. Q. Yuan, C. Tian, S. Q. Yang, B. Zhang and Y. Q. Gu|Show fewer author(s)

    Muons produced by the Bethe–Heitler process from laser wakefield accelerated electrons interacting with highmaterials have velocities close to the laser wakefield. It is possible to accelerate those muons with laser wakefield dire

    Dec. 19, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e63 (2018)
  • Ke Feng... Changhai Yu, Jiansheng Liu, Wentao Wang, Zhijun Zhang, Rong Qi, Ming Fang, Jiaqi Liu, Zhiyong Qin, Ying Wu, Yu Chen, Lintong Ke, Cheng Wang and Ruxin Li|Show fewer author(s)

    In this study, we investigate a new simple scheme using a planar undulator (PU) together with a properly dispersed electron beam (beam) with a large energy spread () to enhance the free-electron laser (FEL) gain. For a dispersedbe

    Dec. 19, 2018
  • Vol. 6 Issue 4 04000e64 (2018)
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