Multipass titanium: sapphire amplifier for terawatt laser systems

被引：6

作者：

Kalashnikov, MP ^{[1
]}

Sommerer, G ^{[1
]}

Nickles, PV ^{[1
]}

Sandner, W ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Max Born Inst, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

来源：

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 1997年 / 27卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1070/QE1997v027n05ABEH000953

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

An investigation was made of an eight-pass amplifier based on titanium-doped sapphire, pumped by the second harmonic of a YAG laser and intended for tera-watt femtosecond laser systems. The gain reached 2 x 10(7) for a pump energy density of 3.2 J cm(-2).

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