• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 14, Issue 9, 091901 (2016)
Zhaohong Liu, Yulei Wang*, Yirui Wang, Hang Yuan, Zhenxu Bai, Hongli Wang, Rui Liu, Sensen Li, Hengkang Zhang, Luoxian Zhou, Tan Tan, Weiming He, and Zhiwei Lu
Author Affiliations
  • National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Tunable Laser, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201614.091901 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zhaohong Liu, Yulei Wang, Yirui Wang, Hang Yuan, Zhenxu Bai, Hongli Wang, Rui Liu, Sensen Li, Hengkang Zhang, Luoxian Zhou, Tan Tan, Weiming He, Zhiwei Lu. Generation of high-energy 284  ps laser pulse without tail modulation by stimulated Brillouin scattering[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14(9): 091901 Copy Citation Text show less
    Illustration of effective pulse duration.
    Fig. 1. Illustration of effective pulse duration.
    Effective pulse duration of a Gaussian waveform under different pump energies.
    Fig. 2. Effective pulse duration of a Gaussian waveform under different pump energies.
    Calculated waveform at 700 mJ with different attenuation ratios.
    Fig. 3. Calculated waveform at 700 mJ with different attenuation ratios.
    Schematic of the experimental compressor using a generator-amplifier setup. P1, P2, thin-film polarizer; L, lens; λ/2, half-wave plate; λ/4, quarter-wave plate; D1, D2, photodiode.
    Fig. 4. Schematic of the experimental compressor using a generator-amplifier setup. P1, P2, thin-film polarizer; L, lens; λ/2, half-wave plate; λ/4, quarter-wave plate; D1, D2, photodiode.
    Pulse duration evolution of output Stokes with respect to input energy using different attenuators. Three insets show compressed pulse shapes in 700 mJ with different attenuation ratios.
    Fig. 5. Pulse duration evolution of output Stokes with respect to input energy using different attenuators. Three insets show compressed pulse shapes in 700 mJ with different attenuation ratios.
    SBS compression conversion efficiency using several attenuators. (a) Conventional conversion efficiency, which does not eliminate the tail modulation. (b) Effective energy conversion efficiency in which the energy of the tail modulation is not included in the calculations.
    Fig. 6. SBS compression conversion efficiency using several attenuators. (a) Conventional conversion efficiency, which does not eliminate the tail modulation. (b) Effective energy conversion efficiency in which the energy of the tail modulation is not included in the calculations.
    Fluorinert propertyFC-72
    Absorption coefficient (cm1)<103
    OBT (GW/cm2)>100
    Threshold energy (10 ns, mJ)2.5
    Brillouin shift (MHz)1100
    SBS gain coefficient (cm/GW)6
    Brillouin linewidth (MHz)270
    Phonon lifetime (ns)1.2
    Table 1. Physical Properties of FC-72
    Zhaohong Liu, Yulei Wang, Yirui Wang, Hang Yuan, Zhenxu Bai, Hongli Wang, Rui Liu, Sensen Li, Hengkang Zhang, Luoxian Zhou, Tan Tan, Weiming He, Zhiwei Lu. Generation of high-energy 284  ps laser pulse without tail modulation by stimulated Brillouin scattering[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14(9): 091901
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