Lasing in 15 atm CO<sub>2</sub> cell optically pumped by a Fe:ZnSe laser

Tovey, D.; Pigeon, J.; Tochitsky, Sergei; Louwrens, G. J.; Ben‐Zvi, I.; Martyshkin, Dmitry; Fedorov, Vladimir V.; Karki, Krishna; Mirov, Sergey; Joshi, C.

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“…A high-pressure CO2 laser pumped with a HBr chemical laser was also demonstrated [8]. Recently, lasing in a 15-atm CO2-He mixture was achieved with a ~ 50 mJ Fe:ZnSe pump laser [9]. Optimal lasing is observed when the pump wavelength is tuned to ~ 4.4 µm, which is at the absorption peak of 13 C 16 O2 (about 1% natural abundance).…”

Section: Direct Optical Pumpingmentioning

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Optical pumping for high-power ultrashort LWIR gas lasers

Chen,

Hasson,

Gordon

et al. 2024

High-Power Laser Ablation VIII

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Long-wave infrared (LWIR) lasers based on high-voltage pulsed discharges in the high-pressure CO2 gas have reached multi-TW peak power. As optical pumping appears to be a more viable pathway toward ultrahigh power and high repetition rate, we investigated multiple apparatus including direct and indirect optical pumping. Indirect optical pumping through stimulated Raman scattering in N2 gas could be efficient, and is relatively insensitive to the pump wavelength. On the other hand, laser technologies for direct optical pumping have higher maturity levels at wavelengths of ~ 1.4 µm and ~ 2.0 µm among multiple excitation bands in the mid-IR wavelength.

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Section: Direct Optical Pumpingmentioning

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Optical pumping for high-power ultrashort LWIR gas lasers

Chen,

Hasson,

Gordon

et al. 2024

High-Power Laser Ablation VIII

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“…Direct optical pumping of the CO 2 molecules using high-power NIR and MWIR sources is another promising approach. Optical pumping at 𝜆 = 4.3 μm, which is preferable for best quantum efficiency, by a Fe:ZnSe laser [116,117] and at 2.8 μm with Cr,Er:YSGG-or Ho:YAG-pumped OPA [118] are being investigated. Apart from enabling stable high-repetition operation, optical pumping considerably increases our ability to optimize the pressure and the composition of the active gas mixture.…”

Section: Mid-ir and Long Wavelength Infrared Lasersmentioning

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High average power ultrafast laser technologies for driving future advanced accelerators

Kiani,

Zhou,

Bahk

et al. 2023

J. Inst.

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Large scale laser facilities are needed to advance the energy frontier in high energy physics and accelerator physics. Laser plasma accelerators are core to advanced accelerator concepts aimed at reaching TeV electron electron colliders. In these facilities, intense laser pulses drive plasmas and are used to accelerate electrons to high energies in remarkably short distances. A laser plasma accelerator could in principle reach high energies with an accelerating length that is 1000 times shorter than in conventional RF based accelerators. Notionally, laser driven particle beam energies could scale beyond state of the art conventional accelerators. LPAs have produced multi GeV electron beams in about 20 cm with relative energy spread of about 2 percent, supported by highly developed laser technology. This validates key elements of the US DOE strategy for such accelerators to enable future colliders but extending best results to date to a TeV collider will require lasers with higher average power. While the per pulse energies envisioned for laser driven colliders are achievable with current lasers, low laser repetition rates limit potential collider luminosity. Applications will require rates of kHz to tens of kHz at Joules of energy and high efficiency, and a collider would require about 100 such stages, a leap from current Hz class LPAs. This represents a challenging 1000 fold increase in laser repetition rates beyond current state of the art. This whitepaper describes current research and outlook for candidate laser systems as well as the accompanying broadband and high damage threshold optics needed for driving future advanced accelerators.

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“…Historically, work aimed at expanding the spectral range of created laser sources (using parametric amplification processes) was developed first. Particular interest was associated with the 10 µm region [30,31], which gives opportunities for generating super-powerful picosecond laser pulses in the far-infrared range [32], and is under development at present [33].…”

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High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science

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This review highlights the development of ultrafast sources in the near- and middle-IR range, developed in the laboratory of Nonlinear Optics and Superstrong Laser Fields at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The design of laser systems is based on a powerful ultrafast Cr:Forsterite system as a front-end and the subsequent nonlinear conversion of radiation into the mid-IR, THz, and UV spectral range. Various schemes of optical parametric amplifiers based on oxide and non-oxide crystals pumped with Cr:Forsterite laser can receive pulses in the range of 4–6 µm with gigawatt peak power. Alternative sources of mid-IR ultrashort laser pulses at a relatively high (MHz) repetition rate are also proposed as difference frequency generators and as a femtosecond mode-locked oscillator based on an Fe:ZnSe crystal. Iron ion-doped chalcogenides (Fe:ZnSe and Fe:CdSe) are shown to be effective gain media for broadband high-peak power mid-IR pulses in this spectral range. The developed sources pave the way for advanced research in strong-field science.

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Lasing in 15 atm CO₂ cell optically pumped by a Fe:ZnSe laser

Cited by 12 publications

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Optical pumping for high-power ultrashort LWIR gas lasers

Optical pumping for high-power ultrashort LWIR gas lasers

High average power ultrafast laser technologies for driving future advanced accelerators

High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science

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Lasing in 15 atm CO2 cell optically pumped by a Fe:ZnSe laser

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Optical pumping for high-power ultrashort LWIR gas lasers

Optical pumping for high-power ultrashort LWIR gas lasers

High average power ultrafast laser technologies for driving future advanced accelerators

High-Power Solid-State Near- and Mid-IR Ultrafast Laser Sources for Strong-Field Science

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Lasing in 15 atm CO₂ cell optically pumped by a Fe:ZnSe laser