Ultrahigh brightness XeCl laser system

C. R. Tallman; Antoinette Jane Taylor; J. P. Roberts; C. S. Lester; T. R. Gosnell; W. H. Long

Ultrahigh brightness XeCl laser system

C. R. Tallman
, Antoinette Jane Taylor
, J. P. Roberts
, C. S. Lester
, T. R. Gosnell
, W. H. Long

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Abstract

The authors describe a large aperture 1-Hz XeCl system designed to deliver 0.5-J subpicosecond pulses and yield intensities on target in excess of 10¹⁹ W/cm². Pulses of 175-fs duration at 616 nm are initially generated in a linear cavity dispersion-compensated dye laser (rhodamine 6G/DODCI) that is synchronously pumped by a CW mode-locked Nd:YAG laser. The amplified 616-nm pulses are then frequency doubled to 308 nm. Preamplification of these pulses to the 2-mJ level is accomplished with a single small-aperture commercial XeCl amplifier. The pulse width at this stage is 240 fs. The beam is then expanded in a vacuum spatial filter before entering the final amplifier, 10 × 10-cm² aperture device consists of two independently pumped discharge gain regions that share a common X-ray preionizer.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-0PTICS
Editors	Anon
Publisher	Unknown Publisher
Pages	102-103
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	1557520860
State	Published - Dec 1 1989
Event	1989 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 1989 - Duration: Dec 1 1989 → …

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Name	CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-0PTICS

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Conference	1989 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 1989
Period	12/1/89 → …

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