Activation of a Temporal, Spectral, and Spatially-Shaped Front End for the Mercury Laser

Authors :: Barry L. Freitas
Andy J. Bayramian
J. P. Armstrong
Raymond J. Beach
Bob Kent
Chris Ebbers
T. Ladran
Stephen A. Payne
Kathleen I. Schaffers
Camille Bibeau
Source :: Advanced Solid-State Photonics.
Publication Year :: 2005
Publisher :: OSA, 2005.
Abstract: Hybrid fiber-based master-oscillator power amplifier system coupled with a Yb:SFAP power amplifier will produce 500mJ at 10Hz with 100:1 temporal contrast over 3-10ns and 300GHz spectrally shaped bandwidth allowing broadband amplification corrected for gain narrowing.

Subjects :: Front and back ends
Optical amplifier
Optics
Materials science
business.industry
Mercury laser
Amplifier
Bandwidth (signal processing)
Broadband
Optoelectronics
Laser power scaling
business
Self-phase modulation

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