Title :
Optimized design and construction of 100 TW Ti:sapphire laser - toward phase controlling, spectrum shaping and wave-front correction
Author :
Zhiyi, Wei ; Wang, Zhaohua ; Ling, Weijin ; Wang, Peng ; Tian, Jinrong ; Han, Hainian ; Zha, Jin ; Jia, Yulei ; Zhu, Jiangfeng ; Zhao, Huan ; Zhang, Jie
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Phys., Chinese Acad. of Sci., China
Abstract :
A Ti:sapphire laser facility with techniques of phase controlling and spectrum shaping has been constructed. With the ultrabroad bandwidth seeding pulse and 40 J pump energy, this facility will be capable of multi-100 TW peak power.
Keywords :
adaptive optics; optical pumping; sapphire; solid lasers; spectral line breadth; titanium; 100 TW; 40 J; Al2O3:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; Ti:sapphire laser facility; optical pumping; optimized laser construction; optimized laser design; phase controlling; spectrum shaping; ultrabroad bandwidth seeding pulse; wavefront correction; Design optimization; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical control; Optical design; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Shape control;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548157
