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High stability, single frequency, 300 mJ, 130 ps laser pulse generation based on stimulated Brillouin scattering pulse compression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2014

Xuehua Zhu ,
Zhiwei Lu  and
Yulei Wang
Xuehua Zhu
Affiliation:
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Zhiwei Lu*
Affiliation:
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Yulei Wang*
Affiliation:
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Z. W. Lu, National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. O. Box 3031, Harbin 150080, China. E-mail: zw_lu@sohu.com; or to Y. L. Wang, National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. O. Box 3031, Harbin 150080, China. E-mail: wyl@hit.edu.cn
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Z. W. Lu, National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. O. Box 3031, Harbin 150080, China. E-mail: zw_lu@sohu.com; or to Y. L. Wang, National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, P. O. Box 3031, Harbin 150080, China. E-mail: wyl@hit.edu.cn
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Abstract

We obtained the output of single frequency laser pulses with an average pulse-width of 136 ps and the minimum of 123 ps based on stimulated Brillouin scattering pulse compression pumped by an 8 ns-pulse-width, 1064 nm-wavelength Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The pulse-width stability of the output is about 4.1% while that of the pump pulses is about 1.1%, the highest energy conversion efficiency is about 85%, and the single pulse energy is above 300 mJ.

Keywords

Hundred picosecond laserPulse compressionStimulated Brillouin scattering
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 11 - 15
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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