Abstract
We report on the successful demonstration of a 150 J nanosecond pulsed cryogenic gas cooled, diode-pumped multi-slab Yb:YAG laser operating at 1 Hz. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest energy ever recorded for a diode-pumped laser system.
Highlights
The generation of laser facilities will offer high-energy pulses as well as high repetition rates, enabling ‘real-world’, high-throughput applications and a wide range of science that requires the acquisition of high volumes of data
Energy scaling up to 100 J at 10 Hz was reported for the first time in a two-stage cryo-amplifier[6], delivered to the HiLASE facility[7] at Dolni Brezany in the Czech Republic
We report the scaling up of DiPOLE technology to a pulse energy of 150 J at 1 Hz
Summary
The generation of laser facilities will offer high-energy pulses as well as high repetition rates, enabling ‘real-world’, high-throughput applications and a wide range of science that requires the acquisition of high volumes of data. Such applications include advanced materials processing and laser shock peening[1], high energy density (HED) physics studies[2] and pumping of ultra-high-intensity fs petawattclass lasers to generate secondary radiation (X-rays and γrays) and particle (electrons, protons and muon) sources[3, 4].
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