• DocumentCode
    1770648
  • Title

    Development of high repetition rate 0.1 – 1 TW CO2 lasers

  • Author

    Pigeon, J.J. ; Tochitsky, S.Ya. ; Joshi, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Neptune Lab., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Amplification of 3 ps pulses to >20GW in a 1Hz CO2 laser MOPA chain is described. Several ways and experimental progress towards increase of the peak power for 10 μm pulses are discussed.
  • Keywords
    carbon compounds; gas lasers; CO2; MOPA chain; carbon dioxide lasers; frequency 1 Hz; master oscillator power amplifier; pulse amplification; time 3 ps; Bandwidth; Gas lasers; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Plasmas; X-ray lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989032