Controlling the delivery of multi-terawatt and petawatt laser pulses to final focus,both in position and angle,is critical to many laser applications such as optical guiding,laser–plasma acceleration,and laser-produc...Controlling the delivery of multi-terawatt and petawatt laser pulses to final focus,both in position and angle,is critical to many laser applications such as optical guiding,laser–plasma acceleration,and laser-produced secondary radiation.We present an online,non-destructive laser diagnostic,capable of measuring the transverse position and pointing angle at focus.The diagnostic is based on a unique double-surface-coated wedged-mirror design for the final steering optic in the laser line,producing a witness beam highly correlated with the main beam.By propagating low-power kilohertz pulses to focus,we observed spectra of focus position and pointing angle fluctuations dominated by frequencies below 70 Hz.The setup was also used to characterize the excellent position and pointing angle correlation of the 1 Hz high-power laser pulses to this low-power kilohertz pulse train,opening a promising path to fast non-perturbative feedback concepts even on few-hertz-class high-power laser systems.展开更多
基金the U.S.Department of Energy(DOE),Office of Science,the Office of Basic Energy Sciences,and the Office of High Energy Physics,under Contract No.DE-AC02-05CH11231the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation under Grant No.GBMF4898.
文摘Controlling the delivery of multi-terawatt and petawatt laser pulses to final focus,both in position and angle,is critical to many laser applications such as optical guiding,laser–plasma acceleration,and laser-produced secondary radiation.We present an online,non-destructive laser diagnostic,capable of measuring the transverse position and pointing angle at focus.The diagnostic is based on a unique double-surface-coated wedged-mirror design for the final steering optic in the laser line,producing a witness beam highly correlated with the main beam.By propagating low-power kilohertz pulses to focus,we observed spectra of focus position and pointing angle fluctuations dominated by frequencies below 70 Hz.The setup was also used to characterize the excellent position and pointing angle correlation of the 1 Hz high-power laser pulses to this low-power kilohertz pulse train,opening a promising path to fast non-perturbative feedback concepts even on few-hertz-class high-power laser systems.
