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Multi-terawatt femtosecond laser system of visible range based on a photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2012

S.V. Alekseev ,
A.I. Aristov ,
N.G. Ivanov ,
B.M. Kovalchuk ,
V.F. Losev ,
G.A. Mesyats ,
L.D. Mikheev ,
Yu.N. Panchenko  and
N.A. Ratakhin
S.V. Alekseev
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia
A.I. Aristov
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
N.G. Ivanov
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia
B.M. Kovalchuk
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia
V.F. Losev*
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia
G.A. Mesyats
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
L.D. Mikheev
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Yu.N. Panchenko
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
N.A. Ratakhin
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: V.F. Losev, Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS, 2/3 Akademichesky Ave., Tomsk, 634055, Russia. E-mail: losev@ogl.hcei.tsc.ru
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Abstract

This paper reports on the creation of a THL-100 multi-terawatt hybrid laser system based on a Start-480M titanium-sapphire starting complex and photochemical XeF(C-A) amplifier with a 25-cm aperture. The complex produces 50-fs radiation pulses of energy up to 5 mJ at a second harmonic wavelength of 475 nm. The active medium of the amplifier is created in a XeF2/N2 mixture under vacuum-ultraviolet radiation of electron beam-excited xenon. The results of first experiments on femtosecond pulse amplification in the active medium of the XeF(C-A) amplifier are presented to demonstrate that a laser beam peak power of 14 TW has been attained.

Keywords

Chirped pulsesFemtosecond pulsesHybrid (solid/gas) laser systemPhotochemical XeF(C-A) amplifierSecond harmonic
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 17 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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