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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995),
  • paper CFD8

0.5-Hz, 1-ps, terawatt chirped-pulse-amplification laser system with a Nd:glass slab-amplifier

S. Boege, C. Bamber, T. Kotseroglou, A. C. Melissinos, D. D. Meyerhofer, and W. Ragg

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Abstract

We have developed and demonstrated a 0.5-Hz repetition-rate, 1-μm, 1-ps terawatt chirped-pulse-amplification (CPA) laser system using a flashlamp-pumped Nd:glass zigzag slab amplifier. The laser produces energies greater than 2 J with an average power in excess of 1 W and 1.4-times-diffraction-limited focusing. Frequency doubling of these pulses is accomplished with 55% efficiency. This system has been installed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)as part of the E-144 experiment to study nonlinear QED.1 The laser has been used for collisions with 50-GeV electrons. The laser system and the optical transport lines are described.

© 1995 Optical Society of America

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