Third-harmonic generation studies with coherent and fiber-smoothed pulses for megajoule class lasers

Author

Boscheron, A.C.L. ; Feral, C. ; Mathieu, F. ; Azra, M. ; Laurent, Monique ; Paye, J. ; Bruneau, J.-L.

Author_Institution

Centre d´Etudes de Limeil-Valenton, Commissariat a l´Energie Atomique, Villeneuve St. Georges, France

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

271

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper, we present results we have obtained on our new experimental setup dedicated to harmonic generation study at high fluences on large aperture beam. The experiments are conducted on the backlighter beamline of Phebus, which typically delivers up to 1250 J at 1053 nm on a 19-cm-diameter beam in a 1.3-ns square pulse to reach a 3.5 GW/cm/sup 2/ intensity at the input of the KDP crystals.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; potassium compounds; 1.3 ns; 1053 nm; 1250 J; 19 cm; KDP; KDP crystals; KH2PO4; Phebus; backlighter beamline; cm-diameter beam; fiber-smoothed pulses; harmonic generation study; high fluences; large aperture beam; megajoule class lasers; ns square pulse; third-harmonic generation studies; Apertures; Atom lasers; Crystals; Fiber lasers; Frequency conversion; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optimized production technology; Oscillators; Quantum dot lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864659