Advanced methods of ion implant monitoring using optical dosimetry : J. R. Golin, N. W. Schell and J. A. Glaze. Solid St. Technol. 155 (June 1985)

Abstract

We developed a highly efficient and compact Ti:sapphire multipass amplifier that uses divergent seed beams to generate 20 TW/40 fs laser pulses with a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The laser system consists of a mode-locked oscillator, a regenerative amplifier, and a multipass power amplifier. The thermal lensing effect is very important in this system, especially in the multipass amplifier, as it limits the conversion efficiency. In order to compensate the thermal lensing effect, we calculated the optimum divergence of the seed beam and used the result for the multipass amplifier, where the thermal focusing is taken into account. In this way, we achieved a very high conversion efficiency of 41%, which is close to the theoretical limit. The laser system was then used with a capillary gas cell to generate stable high-energy electron beams with electron energies of about 150 MeV and a beam divergence of 4 ± 1 mrad. In this paper, details of the laser system development and experimental results for electron generation are presented.