Solid-state 263-nm laser for triggering high-voltage switches at Sandia's Z-Accelerator

Solid-state 263-nm laser for triggering high-voltage switches at Sandia's Z-Accelerator

Summary form only given. We designed, built, and tested a Nd/sup 3+/ laser that produced near diffraction-limited, 2.4-J pulses at the harmonically-converted wavelength of 263 nm. This laser is slated to be reactivated at Sandia's Z-Accelerator NM to improve triggering of the Z-Accelerator'...

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Hauptverfasser: Erlandson, A., Ebbers, C., Bartolick, J., Massey, W., Behrendt, W., Drobshoff, A., Narduzzi, J., Caird, J., Payne, S.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Amplitude modulation
Optical pulse generation
Pulse amplifiers
Pulse modulation
Pulse shaping methods
Solid lasers
Solid state circuits
Switches
X-ray diffraction
X-ray lasers
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Zusammenfassung:Summary form only given. We designed, built, and tested a Nd/sup 3+/ laser that produced near diffraction-limited, 2.4-J pulses at the harmonically-converted wavelength of 263 nm. This laser is slated to be reactivated at Sandia's Z-Accelerator NM to improve triggering of the Z-Accelerator's thirty-six SF/sub 6/-filled, high-voltage switches. The switches deliver currents of several MA to electric discharges, called Z-pinches, which generate intense X-rays used to to perform high-energy-density experiments.
DOI:10.1109/LEOSST.2001.941917