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The truncated amplified spontaneous emission pulses in KrF excimer laser by using timeshare quenching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

P. Y. Du ,
Z. W. Lu  and
D. Y. Lin
P. Y. Du
Affiliation:
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Z. W. Lu*
Affiliation:
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
D. Y. Lin
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: luzhiwei_hit@126.com
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Abstract

In order to achieve the truncated amplified spontaneous emission pulse, the method of timeshare quenching was proposed in this paper. When the original pulse of the amplified spontaneous emission is 16.72 ns, the obtained best results show that the pulse width is truncated to 2.48 ns, and the shortening ratio is approximately 6.7. By analyzing the 12 acquisition results of the continuous amplified spontaneous emission truncation, 2.59 ± 0.05 ns amplified spontaneous emission pulse was obtained. The experimental results showed that the stability of the truncated pulse width is well. This method is applicable to truncate the ASE pulse in KrF excimer laser. It is significantly to the research of the inertial confinement fusion.

Keywords

Excimer laserInertial confinement fusionPulse truncationQuenching
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 271 - 275
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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