High-Peak-Power Long-Wave Infrared Lasers with CO2 Amplifiers
Abstract
Long-wave infrared (LWIR) picosecond pulses with multi-terawatt peak power have recently become available for advanced high-energy physics and material research. Multi-joule pulse energy is achieved in an LWIR laser system via amplification of a microjoule seed pulse with high-pressure, mixed-isotope CO2 amplifiers. A chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) scheme is employed in such a laser to reduce the nonlinear interaction between the optical field and the transmissive elements of the system. Presently, a research and development effort is underway towards an even higher LWIR peak power that is required, for instance, for promising particle acceleration schemes. The required boost of the peak power can be achieved by reducing the pulse duration to fractions of a picosecond. For this purpose, the possibility of reducing the gain narrowing in the laser amplifiers and post-compression techniques are being studied. Another direction in research is aimed at the increased throughput (i.e., repetition rate), efficiency, and reliability of LWIR laser systems. The transition from a traditional electric-discharge pumping to an optical pumping scheme for CO2 amplifiers is expected to improve the robustness of high-peak-power LWIR lasers, making them suitable for broad implementation in scientific laboratory, industrial, and clinical environments.
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Accelerator Test Facility
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1778906
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-221268-2021-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2304-6732; TRN: US2209588
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Photonics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2304-6732
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
Citation Formats
Polyanskiy, Mikhail, Pogorelsky, Igor, Babzien, Marcus, Kupfer, Rotem, Vafaei-Najafabadi, Navid, and Palmer, Mark. High-Peak-Power Long-Wave Infrared Lasers with CO2 Amplifiers. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.3390/photonics8040101.
Polyanskiy, Mikhail, Pogorelsky, Igor, Babzien, Marcus, Kupfer, Rotem, Vafaei-Najafabadi, Navid, & Palmer, Mark. High-Peak-Power Long-Wave Infrared Lasers with CO2 Amplifiers. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8040101
Polyanskiy, Mikhail, Pogorelsky, Igor, Babzien, Marcus, Kupfer, Rotem, Vafaei-Najafabadi, Navid, and Palmer, Mark. Wed .
"High-Peak-Power Long-Wave Infrared Lasers with CO2 Amplifiers". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8040101. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1778906.
@article{osti_1778906,
title = {High-Peak-Power Long-Wave Infrared Lasers with CO2 Amplifiers},
author = {Polyanskiy, Mikhail and Pogorelsky, Igor and Babzien, Marcus and Kupfer, Rotem and Vafaei-Najafabadi, Navid and Palmer, Mark},
abstractNote = {Long-wave infrared (LWIR) picosecond pulses with multi-terawatt peak power have recently become available for advanced high-energy physics and material research. Multi-joule pulse energy is achieved in an LWIR laser system via amplification of a microjoule seed pulse with high-pressure, mixed-isotope CO2 amplifiers. A chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) scheme is employed in such a laser to reduce the nonlinear interaction between the optical field and the transmissive elements of the system. Presently, a research and development effort is underway towards an even higher LWIR peak power that is required, for instance, for promising particle acceleration schemes. The required boost of the peak power can be achieved by reducing the pulse duration to fractions of a picosecond. For this purpose, the possibility of reducing the gain narrowing in the laser amplifiers and post-compression techniques are being studied. Another direction in research is aimed at the increased throughput (i.e., repetition rate), efficiency, and reliability of LWIR laser systems. The transition from a traditional electric-discharge pumping to an optical pumping scheme for CO2 amplifiers is expected to improve the robustness of high-peak-power LWIR lasers, making them suitable for broad implementation in scientific laboratory, industrial, and clinical environments.},
doi = {10.3390/photonics8040101},
journal = {Photonics},
number = 4,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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