A high-beam-quality diode-pumped neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet(Nd:YAG) active mirror laser amplifier was demonstrated. The size of the Nd:YAG crystal was 48 mm × 42 mm × 11 mm with 0.6 at.% Nd dope...A high-beam-quality diode-pumped neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet(Nd:YAG) active mirror laser amplifier was demonstrated. The size of the Nd:YAG crystal was 48 mm × 42 mm × 11 mm with 0.6 at.% Nd doped. When the pump energy was 26.8 J and the input energy was 0.3 J, the output pulse energy reached 5.4 J, and the pulse width of 11.3 ns at a 5 Hz repetition rate was obtained for the two gain modules in three-pass amplification, with corresponding optical-to-optical efficiency of 21.2%. The beam quality was measured as M_x^2=2.48 and M_y^2=2.43 in horizontal and vertical directions, respectively.展开更多
We present a spatiotemporal model of pulse amplification in the double-pass active mirror(AM)geometry.Three types of overlap condition are studied,and the spatiotemporal scaling under the four-pulse overlapping(4 PO)c...We present a spatiotemporal model of pulse amplification in the double-pass active mirror(AM)geometry.Three types of overlap condition are studied,and the spatiotemporal scaling under the four-pulse overlapping(4 PO)condition is fully characterized for the first time,by mapping the temporal and spatial segments of beam to the instantaneous gain windows.Furthermore,the influence of spatiotemporal overlaps on the amplified energy,pulse distortion and intensity profile is unraveled for both AM and zigzag configurations.The model,verified by excellent agreement between the predicted and measured results,can be a powerful tool for designing and optimizing high energy multi-pass solid-state laser amplifiers with AM,zigzag and other geometries.展开更多
文摘A high-beam-quality diode-pumped neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet(Nd:YAG) active mirror laser amplifier was demonstrated. The size of the Nd:YAG crystal was 48 mm × 42 mm × 11 mm with 0.6 at.% Nd doped. When the pump energy was 26.8 J and the input energy was 0.3 J, the output pulse energy reached 5.4 J, and the pulse width of 11.3 ns at a 5 Hz repetition rate was obtained for the two gain modules in three-pass amplification, with corresponding optical-to-optical efficiency of 21.2%. The beam quality was measured as M_x^2=2.48 and M_y^2=2.43 in horizontal and vertical directions, respectively.
基金National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFB0405100)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61975087)Beijing Young Talents Support Project(No.2017000020124G044)。
文摘We present a spatiotemporal model of pulse amplification in the double-pass active mirror(AM)geometry.Three types of overlap condition are studied,and the spatiotemporal scaling under the four-pulse overlapping(4 PO)condition is fully characterized for the first time,by mapping the temporal and spatial segments of beam to the instantaneous gain windows.Furthermore,the influence of spatiotemporal overlaps on the amplified energy,pulse distortion and intensity profile is unraveled for both AM and zigzag configurations.The model,verified by excellent agreement between the predicted and measured results,can be a powerful tool for designing and optimizing high energy multi-pass solid-state laser amplifiers with AM,zigzag and other geometries.
