High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2018, 6 (4): 04000e65, Published Online: Dec. 27, 2018  

Development of a 100 J, 10 Hz laser for compression experiments at the High Energy Density instrument at the European XFEL

Author Affiliations
1 Central Laser Facility , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Didcot , OX11 0QX , UK
2 Institute for Radiation Physics , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. , D-01328 Dresden , Germany
Abstract
In this paper we review the design and development of a 100 J, 10 Hz nanosecond pulsed laser, codenamed DiPOLE100X, being built at the Central Laser Facility (CLF). This 1 kW average power diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) is based on a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) design, which includes two cryogenic gas cooled amplifier stages based on DiPOLE multi-slab ceramic Yb:YAG amplifier technology developed at the CLF. The laser will produce pulses between 2 and 15 ns in duration with precise, arbitrarily selectable shapes, at pulse repetition rates up to 10 Hz, allowing real-time shape optimization for compression experiments. Once completed, the laser will be delivered to the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility in Germany as a UK-funded contribution in kind, where it will be used to study extreme states of matter at the High Energy Density (HED) instrument.

Paul Mason, Saumyabrata Banerjee, Jodie Smith, Thomas Butcher, Jonathan Phillips, Hauke Höppner, Dominik Möller, Klaus Ertel, Mariastefania De Vido, Ian Hollingham, Andrew Norton, Stephanie Tomlinson, Tinesimba Zata, Jorge Suarez Merchan, Chris Hooker, Mike Tyldesley, Toma Toncian, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Chris Edwards, John Collier. Development of a 100 J, 10 Hz laser for compression experiments at the High Energy Density instrument at the European XFEL[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2018, 6(4): 04000e65.

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