Bruno Le Garrec. Challenges of high power diode-pumped lasers for fusion energy[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2014, 2(3): 03000e28
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Fig. 1. Laser pulses for (a) fast ignition and (b) shock ignition. In both cases, the compression pulse is preceded by an adiabatic shaping picket (of 100–200 ps duration) from Ref. [22].
Fig. 2. Top left: each beamlet has a phase plate to create a speckle pattern inside the focal spot. Bottom left: many beamlets overlap to smooth the focal spot. Right: introduction of adequate timing between beamlets leads to optical zooming; the spot size is changing during the pulse.
Fig. 4. Evolution of laser output power versus year for some DPSSLs: Mercury[26], SSHCL[37], Textron[38], JHPSSL[36] and also four combined fiber lasers[59]. Also shown is one commercially available multimode fiber laser system[60].