{"title":"High-power free-running single-longitudinal-mode diamond Raman laser enabled by suppressing parasitic stimulated Brillouin scattering","authors":"Yuxuan Liu, Chengjie Zhu, Yuxiang Sun, R. Mildren, Zhen-xu Bai, Baitao Zhang, Weibiao Chen, Dijun Chen, Muye Li, Xuezong Yang, Yan Feng","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.67","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A continuous-wave (CW) single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) Raman laser at 1240 nm with power of up to 20.6 W was demonstrated in a free-running diamond Raman oscillator without any axial-mode selection elements. The SLM operation was achieved due to the spatial-hole-burning free nature of Raman gain and was maintained at the highest available pump power by suppressing the parasitic stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). A folded-cavity design was employed for reducing the perturbing effect of resonances at the pump frequency. At a pump power of 69 W, the maximum Stokes output reached 20.6 W, corresponding to a 30% optical-to-optical conversion efficiency from 1064 to 1240 nm. The result shows that parasitic SBS is the main physical process disturbing the SLM operation of Raman oscillator at higher power. In addition, for the first time, the spectral linewidth of a CW SLM diamond Raman laser was resolved using the long-delayed self-heterodyne interferometric method, which is 105 kHz at 20 W.","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82601131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bo Ren, Can Li, Tao Wang, Kun Guo, Jian Wu, Pu Zhou
{"title":"Thulium-doped all-PM fiber chirped pulse amplifier delivering 314 W average power","authors":"Bo Ren, Can Li, Tao Wang, Kun Guo, Jian Wu, Pu Zhou","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.68","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A high-power all polarization-maintaining (PM) chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system operating in the 2.0 μm range is experimentally demonstrated. Large mode area (LMA) thulium-doped fiber (TDF) with a core/cladding diameter of 25/400 μm is employed to construct the main amplifier. Through dedicated coiling and cooling of the LMA-TDF to manage the loss of the higher order mode and thermal effect, a maximum average power of 314 W with a slope efficiency of 52% and polarization extinction ratio of 20 dB is realized. The pulse duration is compressed to 283 fs with a grating pair, corresponding to a calculated peak power of 10.8 MW, considering the compression efficiency of 88% and the estimated Strehl ratio of 89%. Moreover, through characterizing the noise properties of the laser, an integrated relative intensity noise of 0.11% at 100 Hz−1 MHz is obtained at the maximum output power, whereas the laser timing jitter is degraded by the final amplifier from 318 to 410 fs at an integration frequency of 5 kHz to 1 MHz, owing to the self-phase modulation effect-induced spectrum broadening. The root-mean-square of long-term power fluctuation is tested to be 0.6%, verifying the good stability of the laser operation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest average power of an ultrafast laser realized from an all-PM-fiber TDF-CPA system ever reported.","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86366778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuailin Liu, Bin Zhang, Yuanzhuang Bu, D. Zhao, Xiran Zhu, Linyong Yang, J. Hou
{"title":"High energy and high peak power GHz burst-mode all-fiber laser with uniform envelope and tunable intra-burst pulses","authors":"Shuailin Liu, Bin Zhang, Yuanzhuang Bu, D. Zhao, Xiran Zhu, Linyong Yang, J. Hou","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.62","url":null,"abstract":"We report a Yb-doped all-fiber laser system generating burst-mode pulses with high energy and high peak power at GHz intra-burst repetition rate. To acquire the uniform burst envelope, a double-pre-compensation structure with an arbitrary waveform laser diode driver and an AOM is utilized for the first time. The synchronous pumping is utilized to the system to reduce the burst repetition rate to 100 Hz and suppress the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) effect. By adjusting gain of every stage, the uniform envelopes with different output energies can be easily obtained. The intra-burst repetition rate can be tuned from 0.5 to 10 GHz actively modulated by an electro-optic modulator. Optimized by timing control of 8 channels of analog signal and amplified by 7 stages of Yb-doped fiber amplifier,","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89945256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Ohland, D. Posor, U. Eisenbarth, V. Iancu, R. Ungureanu, D. Ursescu, V. Bagnoud
{"title":"Zernike-coefficient Extraction via Helical Beam Reconstruction for Optimization (ZEHBRO) in the far field","authors":"J. Ohland, D. Posor, U. Eisenbarth, V. Iancu, R. Ungureanu, D. Ursescu, V. Bagnoud","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.63","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial distribution of beams with Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) in the far field is known to be extremely sensitive to angular aberrations, such as astigmatism, coma, and trefoil. This poses a challenge for conventional beam optimization strategies when a homogeneous ring intensity is required for an application. We developed a novel approach for estimating the Zernike coe ffi cients of low-order angular aberrations in the near field based solely on the analysis of the ring deformations in the far field. A fast, iterative reconstruction of the focal ring recreates the deformations and provides insight into the wavefront deformations in the near field without relying on conventional phase retrieval approaches. The output of our algorithm can be used to optimize the focal ring, as demonstrated experimentally at the 100TW beamline at","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80579476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Divoký, Jonathan Phillips, J. Pilař, M. Hanuš, Petr Navrátil, Ondřej Denk, Tomáš Paliesek, P. Severová, Danielle Clarke, M. Smrž, T. Butcher, Chris Edwards, J. Collier, T. Mocek
{"title":"Kilowatt-class high-energy frequency conversion to 95 J at 10 Hz at 515 nm","authors":"M. Divoký, Jonathan Phillips, J. Pilař, M. Hanuš, Petr Navrátil, Ondřej Denk, Tomáš Paliesek, P. Severová, Danielle Clarke, M. Smrž, T. Butcher, Chris Edwards, J. Collier, T. Mocek","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.60","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We report on frequency doubling of high-energy, high repetition rate ns pulses from a cryogenically gas cooled multi-slab ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser system, Bivoj/DiPOLE, using a type-I phase matched lithium triborate crystal. We achieved conversion to 515 nm with energy of 95 J at repetition rate of 10 Hz and conversion efficiency of 79%. High conversion efficiency was achieved due to successful depolarization compensation of the fundamental input beam.","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73546660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ying-Huan Chen, Yicheng Zhou, Zhipeng Qin, G. Xie, P. Yuan, Jingui Ma, L. Qian
{"title":"Spatiotemporally mode-locked soliton fiber laser at 2.8 μm","authors":"Ying-Huan Chen, Yicheng Zhou, Zhipeng Qin, G. Xie, P. Yuan, Jingui Ma, L. Qian","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.58","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Spatiotemporal mode-locking creates great opportunity for pulse energy scaling and nonlinear optics research in fiber. Until now, spatiotemporal mode-locking has only been realized in normal-dispersion dissipative soliton and similariton fiber lasers. In this paper, we demonstrated the first experimental realization of a spatiotemporally mode-locked soliton laser in mid-infrared fluoride fiber with anomalous dispersion. The mode-locked fluoride fiber oscillator directly generated a record pulse energy of 16.1 nJ and peak power of 74.6 kW at 2.8 μm wavelength. This work extends the spatiotemporal mode-locking to soliton fiber lasers and should have a wide interest for the laser community.","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85164368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chuan Yang, T. Liu, Kai Hu, Ye Zhu, Xiaohao Dong, Zhongmin Xu, C. Feng, Weiqing Zhang
{"title":"X-ray diffraction performance of thermally distorted crystals","authors":"Chuan Yang, T. Liu, Kai Hu, Ye Zhu, Xiaohao Dong, Zhongmin Xu, C. Feng, Weiqing Zhang","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.56","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The development of high-brightness X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs), such as hard X-ray self-seeding free electron lasers and XFEL oscillators (XFELOs), brings a severe challenge to the crystal monochromator due to a strong non-uniform thermal load. The distortion caused by spatial temperature gradients can severely affect the optical performance of crystals. Therefore, this paper presents a model to estimate the performance of non-uniform thermally distorted crystals. The model not only takes into account thermal strain, slope error and incident angle deviation, but also considers temperature-dependent factors such as the Debye–Waller factor and electric susceptibility. Our investigation indicates that the Debye–Waller factor reduces the height and bandwidth of rocking curves, and the impact of the electric susceptibility is tiny. The proposed model can describe the distortion of the reflectivity and transmissivity curves of non-uniform thermally loaded crystals and can be applied in the design of crystal monochromators, crystal splitters, crystal compressors and XFELOs.","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86591686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dong Yan, Yue Yuan, Yunpeng Wang, J. Fan, Jiaze Wu, X. Duan, Sining Li, T. Dai, Y. Ju
{"title":"High-energy, alignment-insensitive, injection-seeded Q-switched Ho:yttrium aluminum garnet single-frequency laser","authors":"Dong Yan, Yue Yuan, Yunpeng Wang, J. Fan, Jiaze Wu, X. Duan, Sining Li, T. Dai, Y. Ju","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.57","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A high-energy, alignment-insensitive, injection-seeded Q-switched Ho:yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) single-frequency laser is developed. Both the slave Q-switched laser and the seed laser are Ho:YAG ring lasers based on a pair of corner cubic reflectors. The seed laser has an available power of 830 mW at 2096.667 nm. At 100 Hz, the Q-switched Ho:YAG laser provides a single-frequency pulsed output using injection-seeded technology. The 7.3 mJ single-frequency pulse energy from the slave laser has a pulse width of 161.2 ns and is scaled to 33.3 mJ after passing through the Ho:YAG single-pass amplifier. According to the measurement results of the heterodyne beating technique, the single-frequency pulse has a half-width of 4.12 MHz.","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81445860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Reimold, S. Assenbaum, E. Beyreuther, E. Bodenstein, F. Brack, C. Eisenmann, F. Englbrecht, F. Kroll, F. Lindner, U. Masood, J. Pawelke, U. Schramm, M. Schneider, M. Sobiella, M. Umlandt, M. Vescovi, K. Zeil, T. Ziegler, J. Metzkes-Ng
{"title":"OCTOPOD: single-bunch tomography for angular-spectral characterization of laser-driven protons","authors":"M. Reimold, S. Assenbaum, E. Beyreuther, E. Bodenstein, F. Brack, C. Eisenmann, F. Englbrecht, F. Kroll, F. Lindner, U. Masood, J. Pawelke, U. Schramm, M. Schneider, M. Sobiella, M. Umlandt, M. Vescovi, K. Zeil, T. Ziegler, J. Metzkes-Ng","doi":"10.1017/hpl.2023.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2023.55","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Laser–plasma accelerated (LPA) proton bunches are now applied for research fields ranging from ultra-high-dose-rate radiobiology to material science. Yet, the capabilities to characterize the spectrally and angularly broad LPA bunches lag behind the rapidly evolving applications. The OCTOPOD translates the angularly resolved spectral characterization of LPA proton bunches into the spatially resolved detection of the volumetric dose distribution deposited in a liquid scintillator. Up to 24 multi-pinhole arrays record projections of the scintillation light distribution and allow for tomographic reconstruction of the volumetric dose deposition pattern, from which proton spectra may be retrieved. Applying the OCTOPOD at a cyclotron, we show the reliable retrieval of various spatial dose deposition patterns and detector sensitivity over a broad dose range. Moreover, the OCTOPOD was installed at an LPA proton source, providing real-time data on proton acceleration performance and attesting the system optimal performance in the harsh laser–plasma environment.","PeriodicalId":54285,"journal":{"name":"High Power Laser Science and Engineering","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84424856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}