Design of a diode-pumped multipass amplifier for the LMJ front end

Herve Coic; L. Duffault; Jean-Luc Ayral; Helene Ferrand; Claude Rouyer

doi:10.1117/12.294349

8 December 1997 Design of a diode-pumped multipass amplifier for the LMJ front end

Herve Coic, L. Duffault, Jean-Luc Ayral, Helene Ferrand, Claude Rouyer

Proceedings Volume 3047, Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion: Second Annual International Conference; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.294349
Event: Second International Conference on Solid State Lasers for Application to ICF, 1996, Paris, France

Abstract

We present the design of a diode-pumped Neodymium glass amplifier delivering one Joule output pulses with a 1 Hz to 10 Hz repetition rate, good stability due to diode pumping and good beam properties due to the uniformity of energy deposition. The amplifier architecture is simple and rugged. We show that, when an amplifier with an amplification section of about 1 cm³ is considered, 5 J useful stored energy yields an output pulse with a more than 1 J energy and with low spatial and temporal distortions.

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Herve Coic, L. Duffault, Jean-Luc Ayral, Helene Ferrand, and Claude Rouyer "Design of a diode-pumped multipass amplifier for the LMJ front end", Proc. SPIE 3047, Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion: Second Annual International Conference, (8 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.294349

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