Advanced LD pumped 3.3 J/1 Hz nanosecond Nd:glass preamplifier for SG-II upgrade laser facility

We demonstrate a laser-diode-pumped multipass Nd:glass laser amplifier with a range of advanced characteristics. The amplifier exhibits high extraction efficiency, enables arbitrary shaping of spatial beam intensity, and effectively suppresses frequency modulation to amplitude modulation conversion....

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics express 2023-12, Vol.31 (26), p.43550-43559
Hauptverfasser: Guo, Jiangtao, Wang, Jiangfeng, Lu, Xinghua, Huang, Wenfa, Huang, Dajie, Wang, Xiaochao, Wei, Hui, Fan, Wei, Li, Xuechun
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We demonstrate a laser-diode-pumped multipass Nd:glass laser amplifier with a range of advanced characteristics. The amplifier exhibits high extraction efficiency, enables arbitrary shaping of spatial beam intensity, and effectively suppresses frequency modulation to amplitude modulation conversion. Our approach achieves excellent beam quality via thermal lensing and thermal depolarization compensation. When a 1.82 mJ/5 ns laser pulse was injected into the amplifier, the output energy reached up to 3.3 J with a repetition rate of 1 Hz at a central wavelength of 1053.3 nm. The near-field modulation of the amplified output beam was below 1.2, and the far-field focusing ability of the beam was 90% at 2.9 times the diffraction limit. This laser amplifier system holds potential for integration as a preamplifier within the SG-II upgrade high power laser facility.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.504230