Author: Chyla, M.
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WEPRO050 Cryogenically Cooled 1J, ps Yb:YAG Slab Laser for High-brightness Laser-Compton X-Ray Source 2056
 
  • A. Endo, M. Chyla, T. Miura, T. Mocek, P. Sikocinski
    Czech Republic Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
  • K. Sakaue, M. Washio
    RISE, Tokyo, Japan
 
  Funding: This work benefitted from the support of the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to the HiLASE and DPSSLasers projects cofinanced from the European Regional Development Fund.
Laser Compton X-ray source is studied as an accelerator-laser hybrid technology to realize a compact source from soft X-ray to gamma ray*. It is critical to design a solid state laser of 1J pulse energy with 1ps pulse length, and a high beam quality for 10 microμm diameter interaction. The required M2 is less than 1.5 in a standard normal incidence configuration. X-ray total photon number is ~109 with 1nC, 3ps 43MeV electron bunch for each shot. HiLASE project is committed to make a progress in the field of new generation solid state laser based on Yb-doped materials, to deliver 1J at 120Hz of 1-2ps with M2<1.5. The laser system consists of a seed fiber laser and two amplifier stages, an Yb:YAG thin disk regenerative amplifier, and a cryogenically cooled single slab booster amplifier. We have obtained output energy of 45mJ from the regenerative amplifier at 1 kHz with M2 <1.2. Booster amplifier is designed by a conduction cooling to build a compact system. Gain bandwidth was 1.2nm at 120K, enough to obtain 1-2ps pulses. Improvement of the crystal holder and the experimental results are presented to indicate the available pulse energy and M2.
*Endo, A. et.al. “Characterization of the monochromatic laser Compton X-ray beam with picosecond and femtosecond pulse widths”, Proceedings SPIE 4502, pp100-108 (2001)
 
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