• DocumentCode
    2783330
  • Title

    Pump beams homogenization for Terawatt / Petawatt class Ti:Sapphire amplifiers

  • Author

    Canova, Federico ; Chambaret, Jean-Paul ; Reversat, F. ; Tisserand, S. ; Plé, Fabien ; Pittman, Moana

  • Author_Institution
    Laboratiore d¿Optique Appliquée, ENSTA, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS UMR 7639 Chemin de la Huniÿre, 91761 Palaiseau Cedex France
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Our goal is to design robust configurations for Terawatt/Petawatt-class power amplifiers. We investigate the processes involved in Ti:Sa pumping: damage threshold of amplifying material, beam transport (relay-image or homogenization) and coherence properties of pump lasers.
  • Keywords
    Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical design; Optical fibers; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Smoothing methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2007.4431075
  • Filename
    4431075
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2783330