In this work, we evaluated the feasibility of sapphire conductive cooling for short-pulse Ti:Sapphire (Ti:sa) laser amplifiers which suffers from thermal issues under high-repetition-rate and high-energy operation. Numerical heat transfer simulations of 100-TW class sapphire face-cooled Ti:sa gain modules operated around 300 W average powers are presented. The distributions of temperature, stress, strain, and birefringence in liquid cooled sapphire/Ti:sa/sapphire assembly are calculated by a finite element analysis. Based on these data, the thermal induced wave front distortions and depolarization are investigated for different repetition rates. We determine that sapphire face cooling concept holds a promise of achieving higher energies and repetition-rates in Ti:Sa amplifiers.
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