High-energy, all-solid-state, ultraviolet laser power-amplifier module design and its output-energy scaling principle.
We demonstrate that a coaxially pumped, large-aperture ultraviolet power-amplifier module with solid-state tunable laser medium Ce(3+):LiCaAlF6 has 98-mJ, 290-nm, and 3-ns output pulses with a sufficient extraction efficiency of 25%. The detailed information of design parameters, including the gain-coefficient dependence on pump condition, is successfully accumulated for further energy scaling for a terawatt-class ultraviolet chirped pulse amplification laser system or a high-pulse-energy laser system.
Ono
Shingo
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Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan. shingo@ims.ac.jp
Suzuki
Yuji
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Kozeki
Toshimasa
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Murakami
Hidetoshi
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Ohtake
Hideyuki
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Sarukura
Nobuhiko
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Sato
Hiroki
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Machida
Susumu
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Shimamura
Kiyoshi
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Fukuda
Tsuguo
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