Author Affiliations
Abstract
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
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.
cryogenic lasers diode-pumped solid-state laser high energy lasers laser amplifiers Yb:YAG 
High Power Laser Science and Engineering
2018, 6(4): 04000e65
Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Nevada Terawatt Facility, Physics Department, MS-220, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA
2 Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, UMR 7605 CNRS-CEA-Ecole Polytechnique-Universite Paris VI, 91128 Palaiseau, France
3 Centre de Physique Thdorique, UMR 7644 CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
4 Heinrich Heine Universitat Dusseldorf, D-40225 Dusseldorf, Germany
5 School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
6 DPTA, CEA-DIF, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France
Laser-accelerated ion sources have exceptional properties and could stimulate development of compact ion accelerators. For many applications beam control is an essential requirement. A new and interesting technique to control proton beam characteristics has been recently developed. It consists in using an ultrafast laser-triggered micro-lens, which provides simultaneous energy selection and focusing of the incoming ion beam and is tunable. Particle-in-cell simulations coupled with particle tracing are used to model the focusing and energy selection mechanisms, and to study the symmetry of the expanding plasma inside the micro-lens. The model developed is able to reproduce and explain the experimental results obtained at the Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses in France.
350.4990 Particles 350.5400 Plasmas 
Chinese Optics Letters
2007, 5(s1): 136

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