High average power, diode pumped petawatt laser systems: a new generation of lasers enabling precision science and commercial applications
| Autor: | A. Naylon, D. Mason, Paul Rosso, D. VanBlarcom, J. Horner, Petr Mazurek, Andy J. Bayramian, W. Maranville, J. Stanley, Tayyab I. Suratwala, R. Steele, Constantin Haefner, Joseph A. Menapace, Shawn Betts, M. A. Drouin, David A. Smith, S. Telford, D. Kim, J. Thoma, Emily Sistrunk, Josef Cupal, Alvin C. Erlandson, Christopher J. Stolz, Jakub Novák, Davorin Peceli, K. Kasl, J. Jarboe, Christopher D. Marshall, L. Koubíková, Kathleen I. Schaffers, P. E. Miller, Paul J. Wegner, S. Buck, R. Bopp, Jakub Horáček, J. Weiss, T. Spinka, E. Koh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Chirped pulse amplification
Physics Photon Nuclear transmutation business.industry Pulse duration 02 engineering and technology Electron 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Laser 01 natural sciences law.invention 010309 optics Optics law 0103 physical sciences Neutron 0210 nano-technology business Diode |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| Popis: | Large laser systems that deliver optical pulses with peak powers exceeding one Petawatt (PW) have been constructed at dozens of research facilities worldwide and have fostered research in High-Energy-Density (HED) Science, High-Field and nonlinear physics [1]. Furthermore, the high intensities exceeding 1018W/cm2 allow for efficiently driving secondary sources that inherit some of the properties of the laser pulse, e.g. pulse duration, spatial and/or divergence characteristics. In the intervening decades since that first PW laser, single-shot proof-of-principle experiments have been successful in demonstrating new high-intensity laser-matter interactions and subsequent secondary particle and photon sources. These secondary sources include generation and acceleration of charged-particle (electron, proton, ion) and neutron beams, and x-ray and gamma-ray sources, generation of radioisotopes for positron emission tomography (PET), targeted cancer therapy, medical imaging, and the transmutation of radioactive waste [2, 3]. Each of these promising applications requires lasers with peak power of hundreds of terawatt (TW) to petawatt (PW) and with average power of tens to hundreds of kW to achieve the required secondary source flux. |
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