Thermal Lensing Compensation in the Development of 30 fs Pulse Duration Chirped Pulse Amplification Laser System and Single-Shot Intensity-Phase Measurement

• Authors: T. Imran , M. Hussain
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We present 30 fs pulse duration home-made chirped pulse amplification Ti:sapphire laser system operating at a repetition rate of 1 kHz with 4.0 mJ pulse energy. The Ti:sapphire laser system with ım819 nm center wavelength has a long-cavity oscillator, four pass grating stretcher, 8-pass pre-amplifier, 4-pass post-amplifier and a double pass grating compressor. The Peltier coolers and thermal eigenmode post-amplifier are introduced to compensate the thermal lensing of the crystal in the amplifiers and to enhance the beam focusability on the crystal. The Strehl ratio and M² value measured by employing the Shack-Hartman wavefront sensor HASO4 to observe the spatial profile and beam quality. The most sensitive single-shot second harmonic generation frequency-resolved optical gating diagnostic technique is employed to characterize intensity and phase of the output compressed laser pulses.

Keywords

EN

lasers; laser optical systems: design and operation; nonlinear optics

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 133
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 28-31

Dates

published

2018-01

received

2016-06-27

(unknown)

2017-11-19

Contributors

author

T. Imran

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11541, Saudi Arabia

author

M. Hussain

• GoLP/Instituto de Plasmas e Fusăo Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.131.28