外文题目: Suppression of thermal lens effect in high-pulse-energy Ti:sapphire amplifiers
作者: Wu, Fenxiang; Yu, Linpeng; Lu, Jun; Li, Wenkai; Xu, Yi; Leng, Yuxin
刊名: Opt. Laser Technol.
年: 2017 卷: 87 页： 94--98
英文关键词:
Ultrafast lasers; Laser amplifiers; Lasers titanium; Thermal effects
TI-SAPPHIRE LASER; WAVE-FRONT CORRECTION; REPETITION RATE; BEAM-PROPAGATION; 1 KHZ; SYSTEM; AMPLIFICATION; 10-HZ; GENERATION
英文摘要:
In high-pulse-energy Ti:sapphire amplifiers with moderate repetition rate, the thermal lens effect can significantly decrease the energy extraction efficiency and increase the risk of optical damage. A new method, without introducing any additional components, is proposed to suppress the thermal lens effect in such amplifiers. By utilizing a particularly designed beam expander before the amplifier, specific expanding ratio and beam divergence can be introduced to the injected seed pulses, which can improve the spatial matching between the seed pulses and the pump pulses, and thus enhance the energy extraction efficiency. The enhancement of the energy extraction efficiency has reached approximately 10% in our experimental four-pass Ti:sapphire amplifier, and the good agreement between theoretical and experimental results also demonstrates the validity and feasibility of this method. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


文献类型: 期刊论文
正文语种: English
收录类别: SCI
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2016.08.004


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