A high-power, Joule-class, nanosecond temporally shaped multi-pass ring laser amplifier system with two neodymium-doped phosphate glass (Nd:glass) laser heads is demonstrated. The laser amplifier system consists of three parts: an all-fiber structure seeder, a diode-pumped Nd:glass regenerative amplifier and a multi-pass ring amplifier, where the thermally induced depolarization of two laser heads is studied experimentally and theoretically. Following the injection of a square pulse with the pulse energy of 0.9 mJ and pulse width of 6 ns, a 0.969-J high-energy laser pulse at 1 Hz was generated, which had the ability to change the waveform arbitrarily, based on the all-fiber structure front end. The experimental results show that the proposed laser system is promising to be adopted in the preamplifier of high-power laser facilities.
We demonstrate a laser diode end-pumped helium gas-cooled multislab Nd:glass laser amplifier. The design and thermal management of the proposed laser amplifier are discussed. The thermally induced wavefront aberration of the slabs was also measured and compared with simulation results. A small-signal single-pass longitudinal gain of 1.8 was measured with a pump energy of 7.3 J. With an injected seed energy of 0.6 mJ, the output energy from the amplifier reached 0.5 J at 0.2 Hz and 0.43 J at 0.5 Hz in a multipass extraction geometry, thus demonstrating the feasibility of diode-pumped, high-energy lasers with direct gas cooling.
In order to characterize ultrashort pulses in real time at 1 μm wavelength, a temporal imaging structure based on the four-wave mixing effect in highly nonlinear fibers is implemented and analyzed both theoretically and experimentally. It is found that both time-frequency transfer and the temporal magnification process can be realized approximately in one structure. The pulse widths of the signal laser measured by the time-frequency transfer and the temporal magnification process are 3.2 ps and 3.1 ps, respectively, which are nearly the same and are in agreement with the result of the autocorrelator. The temporal magnification factor is 33, and the temporal resolution is 380 fs. The method based on the temporal magnification process is inherently real time and single shot, which makes it suitable for applications in the measurement of high-power ultrashort pulses. The four-wave mixing time lens promises future applications in the characterization of the single-shot high-power short laser.
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