Development of a high-contrast, high beam-quality, high-intensity laser

Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Mori, Michiaki; Nakai, Yoshiki*; Shimomura, Takuya; Sasao, Hajime*; Tanaka, Momoko; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Tanoue, Manabu*; Kondo, Shuji; Kanazawa, Shuhei; et al.

Reza Kenkyu, 38(9), p.669 - 675, 2010/09

https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/10026690779

This paper reviews the temporal contrast and spatial beam quality improvement techniques in a high intensity Ti:sapphire laser system that is based on chirped-pulse amplification (CPA). We describe a low gain optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) preamplifier that uses high energy, clean pulse seeding and is shown to significantly improve the contrast to better than 10-10 relative to the peak of the main femtosecond pulse. We also report the use of a diffractive optical element for beam homogenization of a 100 J level Nd:glass green pump laser, achieving a flat-topped spatial profile with a filling factor near 80 %.

High-contrast (10), high-intensity (500 TW) J-KAREN laser system

Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Mori, Michiaki; Nakai, Yoshiki; Shimomura, Takuya; Sasao, Hajime; Tanaka, Momoko; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Tanoue, Manabu*; Okada, Hajime; Kondo, Shuji; et al.

JAEA-Conf 2010-002, p.18 - 21, 2010/06

https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-conf-2010-002

We have developed a femtosecond high intensity laser system, which combines both Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) and optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) techniques, that produces more than 30 J broadband output energy, indicating the potential for achieving peak powers in excess of 500 TW. With a cleaned high-energy seeded OPCPA preamplifier as a front-end in the system, for the final compressed pulse (without pumping the booster amplifier) we found that the temporal contrast in this system exceeds 10 on the sub-nanosecond timescale, and is near 10 on the nanosecond timescale before the main femtosecond pulse. Using diffractive optical elements for beam homogenization of 100-J level high-energy Nd:glass green pump laser in a Ti:sapphire final amplifier, we have successfully generated broadband high-energy output with near-perfect top-hat intensity distributions.

High enrichment of Si by infrared multiple photon decomposition of SiF

Yokoyama, Atsushi; Oba, Hironori; Shibata, Takemasa; Kawanishi, Shunichi*; Sugimoto, Shunichi*; Ishii, Takeshi*; Oya, Akio*; Miyamoto, Yoshiki*; Isomura, Shohei*; Arai, Shigeyoshi*

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 39(4), p.457 - 462, 2002/04

https://doi.org/10.3327/jnst.39.457

no abstracts in English

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Koyama, Masahiro; *; Miyakawa, Shunichi

PNC TN9440 88-005, 36 Pages, 1988/06

PNC-TN9440-88-005.pdf:0.71MB

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Koyama, Masahiro; *; Miyakawa, Shunichi

PNC TN9440 87-008, 39 Pages, 1987/12

PNC-TN9440-87-008.pdf:5.15MB

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Miyakawa, Shunichi; *; *; Yokoyama, Kazuro; *;

PNC TN9900 86-001, 792 Pages, 1986/09

PNC-TN9900-86-001.pdf:25.77MB

no abstracts in English

Temporal contrast and spatial beam quality improvement techniques in a high intensity laser

Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Mori, Michiaki; Nakai, Yoshiki; Shimomura, Takuya; Sasao, Hajime; Tanaka, Momoko; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Tanoue, Manabu*; Okada, Hajime; Kondo, Shuji; et al.

no journal, , 

We have developed a femtosecond high intensity laser system, which combines both Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) and optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) techniques, that produces more than 30 J broadband output energy, indicating the potential for achieving peak powers in excess of 500 TW. With a cleaned high-energy seeded OPCPA preamplifier as a front-end in the system, for the final compressed pulse we found that the temporal contrast in this system exceeds 10 on the sub-nanosecond timescale before the main femtosecond pulse. Using diffractive optical elements for beam homogenization of 100-J level high-energy Nd:glass green pump laser in a Ti:sapphire final amplifier, we have successfully generated broadband high-energy output with near-perfect top-hat intensity distributions.

Radiobiological effects by the irradiation of laser-accelerated proton beams

Yogo, Akifumi; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Hori, Toshihiko; Sato, Katsutoshi; Nishikino, Masaharu; Maeda, Takuya; Mori, Michiaki; Ogura, Koichi; Orimo, Satoshi; et al.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Demonstration of a temporally and spatially high quality petawatt-lass laser system

Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Mori, Michiaki; Nakai, Yoshiki*; Shimomura, Takuya; Sasao, Hajime; Tanaka, Momoko; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Tanoue, Manabu*; Okada, Hajime; Kanazawa, Shuhei; et al.

no journal, , 

We report the demonstration of over 30-J of uncompressed broadband energy, indicating the potential peak power in excess of 500-TW with high temporal-contrast around 10 and a flat-toped spatial-profile with an 80 percent filling factor.

Demonstration of a high-efficiency, broadband optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification as a front-end for a high intensity laser

Kosuge, Atsushi; Kiriyama, Hiromitsu; Shimomura, Takuya; Tanoue, Manabu*; Kanazawa, Shuhei; Ochi, Yoshihiro; Mori, Michiaki; Tanaka, Momoko; Okada, Hajime; Sasao, Hajime*; et al.

no journal, , 

High conversion efficiency of optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) is demonstrated with the use of a commercial frequency-doubled Q-Switched Nd:YAG laser. In the high energy seeded OPCPA, we have achieved a pump-to-signal conversion efficiency of 28%. Our result represents, to our knowledge, the most efficient OPCPA to date pumped by a commercial frequency-doubled Q-switched Nd:YAG laser.