title: Neodymium glass laser with a phase conjugate mirror producing 220 J pulses at 0.02 Hz repetition rate.
abstract: For pumping multipetawatt Ti:sapphire laser facilities we developed a compact repetitively pulsed laser based on neodymium phosphate glass with pulse energy of 220 J, pulse repetition rate of 0.02 Hz, beam diameter of 43 mm, aperture fill factor of 0.8, and FWHM pulse duration of 30 ns. The phase distortions of laser radiation were compensated by optical phase conjugation via stimulated Brillouin scattering. The depolarization was reduced to 0.4% using linear compensation methods. The beam quality was 2.5 x diffraction limit (150 µrad).
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kuzmin
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Khazanov
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Kulagin
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Shaykin