• DocumentCode
    546958
  • Title

    All-reflective Ti:Sa power amplifier for Petawatt laser

  • Author

    Blakeney, J.K. ; Quevedo, H.I. ; Martinez, M. ; Gaul, E. ; Bang, W. ; Kuk, D. ; Kim, I. ; McCormick, M. ; Dyer, G. ; Bernstein, A.C. ; Ditmire, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Center For High Energy Density Sci., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    An all-reflective Ti:Sa power amplifier capable of extracting up to 60 joules has been designed. The power amplifier consists of four passes through a 100mm Ti:Sa crystal really imaged by off-axis parabolas enclosed in a vacuum chamber.
  • Keywords
    optical design techniques; optical fibre amplifiers; optical materials; solid lasers; Ti; Ti:Sa crystal; all-reflective power amplifier; off-axis parabolas; petawatt laser; vacuum chamber; wavelength 100 nm; Crystals; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Power amplifiers; Power lasers; Relays;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951183