학술논문

Multisegment Nd:glass amplifiers for the National Ignition Facility and the French Laser Megajoule
Document Type
Conference
Source
Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Lasers and electro-optics Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on. :325 1996
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Ignition
Optical amplifiers
Pulse amplifiers
Laser excitation
Optical design
Costs
Optical distortion
Distortion measurement
Pump lasers
Glass
Language
Abstract
Summary form only given. In this paper, we describe the Nd:glass laser amplifier mechanical design and report the results of both modeling and experiments in support of NIP and LMJ amplifier development. Gain measurements performed on a 2/spl times/2 multisegment amplifier using 4.3-cm-bore flashlamps have demonstrated 3% storage efficiencies. Ray-trace calculations agree well with the measured gain distributions.