50-W average power, 200-Hz repetition rate, 480-fs KrF excimer laser with gated gain ampliflcation

Author

Nabekawa, Yasuo ; Yoshitomi, D. ; Sekikawa, T. ; Watanebe, S.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Solid State Phys., Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

96

Lastpage

97

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on a method for an efficient energy extraction from a KrF excimer laser which is called "gated gain amplification (GGA)" resulting in 50-W average power of 480-fs pulses at 200-Hz repetition rate. The laser is developed for high-power soft X-ray generation from a Xe cluster target and also for the generation of high-power harmonics in the XUV region.

Keywords

X-ray lasers; X-ray optics; excimer lasers; high-speed optical techniques; krypton compounds; optical harmonic generation; 480 fs; 50 W; KrF; XUV region; Xe cluster target; average power; efficient energy extraction; fs KrF excimer laser; gated gain amplification; high-power harmonics; high-power soft X-ray generation; repetition rate; Autocorrelation; Delay; Laser theory; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Solid lasers; X-ray lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947527

Filename

947527