Adaptive optics at the PHELIX laser

Autor: Klaus Witte, Dasa Javorkova, Vincent Bagnoud, H.-M. Heuck, Stefan Götte, Udo Eisenbart, Jérôme Fils, Andreas Tauschwitz, Ulrich Wittrock, Eckehard Onkels, Stefan Borneis
Jazyk: němčina
Rok vydání: 2013
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DOI: 10.25974/fhms-621
Popis: GSI Darmstadt currently builds a high-energy petawatt Nd:glass laser system, called PHELIX (Petawatt High-Energy Laser for Heavy-Ion Experiments). PHELIX will offer the world-wide unique combination of a high current, high-energy heavy-ion beam with an intense laser beam. Aberrations due to the beam transport and due to the amplification process limit the focusability and the intensity at the target. We have investigated the aberrations of the different amplification stages. The pre-amplifier stage consists of three rod-amplifiers which cause mainly defocus, but also a small part of coma and astigmatism. The main amplifier consists of five disk amplifiers with a clear aperture of 315 mm. These large disk-amplifiers cause pump-shot aberrations which occur instantly. After a shot, the disk amplifiers need a cooling time of several hours to relax to their initial state. This limits the repetition rate and causes long-term aberrations. We will present first measurements of the pump-shot and long-term aberrations caused by the pre- and the main amplifier in a single-pass configuration. In this context, we will present the adaptive optics system which is implemented in the PHELIX beam line and discuss its capability to compensate for the pump-shot and long-term aberrations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE