• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 15, Issue 1, 011401 (2017)
Chao Wang1、2, Hui Wei1、*, Jiangfeng Wang1, Dajie Huang1, Wei Fan1, and Xuechun Li1
Author Affiliations
  • 1National Laboratory on High Power Lasers and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201715.011401 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Chao Wang, Hui Wei, Jiangfeng Wang, Dajie Huang, Wei Fan, Xuechun Li. 1  J, 1  Hz lamp-pumped high-gain Nd: phosphate glass laser amplifier[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(1): 011401 Copy Citation Text show less
    Four-pass amplification optical layout.
    Fig. 1. Four-pass amplification optical layout.
    (a) Gain coefficient (logarithm of the gain factor) vs. the pump power with and without the filter for N31 and NAP2. (b) Peak value (PV) of wavefront distortion vs. the pump power with and without the filter.
    Fig. 2. (a) Gain coefficient (logarithm of the gain factor) vs. the pump power with and without the filter for N31 and NAP2. (b) Peak value (PV) of wavefront distortion vs. the pump power with and without the filter.
    Gain distribution over the cross section of the rod.
    Fig. 3. Gain distribution over the cross section of the rod.
    (a) Wavefront distribution. (b) Wavefront distribution in horizontal and vertical lines. (c) Wavefront distribution of the high-order distortion in horizontal and vertical lines.
    Fig. 4. (a) Wavefront distribution. (b) Wavefront distribution in horizontal and vertical lines. (c) Wavefront distribution of the high-order distortion in horizontal and vertical lines.
    Principle of the thermally induced birefringence compensation.
    Fig. 5. Principle of the thermally induced birefringence compensation.
    Intensity distribution of the near field (a) without and (b) with pre-compensation.
    Fig. 6. Intensity distribution of the near field (a) without and (b) with pre-compensation.
    (a) Intensity distribution in the far field. (b) Energy concentration rate curve of the focal spot. The dashed line is for a square 6-order-super-Gaussian beam, and the solid line is the experimental data.
    Fig. 7. (a) Intensity distribution in the far field. (b) Energy concentration rate curve of the focal spot. The dashed line is for a square 6-order-super-Gaussian beam, and the solid line is the experimental data.
    Pulse energy versus time in 30 min for the input and output pulse energies.
    Fig. 8. Pulse energy versus time in 30 min for the input and output pulse energies.
    Chao Wang, Hui Wei, Jiangfeng Wang, Dajie Huang, Wei Fan, Xuechun Li. 1  J, 1  Hz lamp-pumped high-gain Nd: phosphate glass laser amplifier[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(1): 011401
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