Development of a 100-terawatt hybrid femtosecond laser system

Лосев, В. Ф.; Alekseev, S. V.; Ivanov, N. G.; Kovalchuk, B. M.; Михеев, Л. Д.; Mesyats, G. A.; Panchenko, Yu. N.; Puchikin, А. V.; Ratakhin, N. A.; Yastremsky, Arkadi G.

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“…In recent years, an alternative approach to the design of multi-terawatt and petawatt femtosecond laser systems has been developed at the Institute of High Current Electronics (Tomsk, Russia), Lebedev Physical Institute (Moscow, Russia), and LP3 Laboratory of the Marseille University (Marseille, France) (Losev et al, 2006;2011a;2011b;Mikheev et al, 2006;Ivanov et al, 2009;Clady et al, 2006;Tcheremiskine et al, 2008). The approach is based on a solid-state femtosecond laser complex (second harmonic, 475 nm) and a photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier with a gaseous active medium (Mikheev, 1992;Eckstrom & Walker, 1982).…”

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Multi-terawatt femtosecond laser system of visible range based on a photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier

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This paper reports on the creation of a THL-100 multi-terawatt hybrid laser system based on a Start-480M titaniumsapphire starting complex and photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier with a 25-cm aperture. The complex produces 50-fs radiation pulses of energy up to 5 mJ at a second harmonic wavelength of 475 nm. The active medium of the amplifier is created in a XeF 2 /N 2 mixture under vacuum-ultraviolet radiation of electron beam-excited xenon. The results of first experiments on femtosecond pulse amplification in the active medium of the XeF(C-A) amplifier are presented to demonstrate that a laser beam peak power of 14 TW has been attained.

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Multi-terawatt femtosecond laser system of visible range based on a photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier

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“…Testing of the model was carried out to the different gas mixtures both before the upgrading THL-100 system 8,19 (energy VUV pump radiation EVUF=220 J) and after upgrading 20 (E VUF =260 J). To testing of the model, the measured and calculated dependencies of small-signal gain vs the distance to the windows were compared for different gas mixtures 8,20 .…”

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Evolution of spatial and energy characteristics conically divergent beams in the XeF(С-A) amplifier

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Evolution of spatial and energy characteristics start pulse with energy of 0.8 mJ in duration of 2 ps in the XeF(С-A) amplifier of THL-100 laser system have been studied experimentally and by numerical simulation. Laser radiation energy E = 2 J was obtained experimentally. In that work we present the 3D-model amplification of conically diverging laser beams, that takes into account the spatial inhomogeneity of the pump, and the geometry of THL-100 laser system amplifier. Description and the test results of the model are submitted. At the start pulse energy 0.8 mJ, the calculated radiation energy at the XeF(С-A) output reaches 2.4 J. Simulation results shows that, maximal intensity of the laser radiation in this mode reaches P = 60 GW/cm 2. The evolution of the energy and space-time structure of the laser beam in the amplifier was investigated. It is shown that in the ideal case (excluding the processes of nonlinear interaction of laser beam with an active medium), at the start pulse energy of 5 mJ, the energy of the laser radiation at the output of the amplifier is increased to E out = 3.8 J. In this mode, the maximal radiation intensity reaches a value of I = 148 GW/cm 2 .

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“…An alternative approach to the design of multiterawatt and petawatt femtosecond laser systems has been developed at the Lebedev Physical Institute (Moscow, Russia) [18,19], LP3 Laboratory of the Marseille University (Marseille, France) [20][21][22], and Institute of High Current Electronics (Tomsk, Russia) [23][24][25]. This approach is based on a solid-state femtosecond front-end and a photochemical XeF(C-A) boosting amplifier with a gaseous active medium [26,27].…”

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High-Power Laser Systems of UV and Visible Spectral Ranges

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Лосев²,

Panchenko³

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Three high-power excimer laser systems with apertures of 25 and 40 cm of the output laser beam are described. The first and second laser systems consist of four and five excimer lasers, respectively. Third system consists of Ti:Sa front end and XeF(C-A) amplifier. The experimental results of the generation of the high-quality and high-power laser pulses are presented. Laser beams with pulse energy of up to 330 J (308 nm, 250 ns) and peak power 14 TW (450 nm, 50 fs) were obtained.

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Development of a 100-terawatt hybrid femtosecond laser system

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Multi-terawatt femtosecond laser system of visible range based on a photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier

Multi-terawatt femtosecond laser system of visible range based on a photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier

Evolution of spatial and energy characteristics conically divergent beams in the XeF(С-A) amplifier

High-Power Laser Systems of UV and Visible Spectral Ranges

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