Driver technology is a key issue for Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) development. A diode pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) is expected to be a promising candidate of reactor driver for IFE. The specifications required for the IFE driver are 2-5 MJ output pulse energy, 10-20 Hz repetition rate, 500-200 nm laser wavelength, and >10% electrical efficiency. We have newly designed a Nd:YAG DPSSL driver module based on a water cooled zig-zag path slab amplifier, which can deliver 10 kJ output energy at 350 nm with 12 Hz repetition. The module consists of 15 beamlets and each beamlet is a double 4-pass amplifier system as it plays a role of both pre-amplifier (4-pass) and main amplifier (4-pass). The laser driver producing a 4 MJ blue output consists of 400 modules.


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    Title :

    Development of high-power DPSSL and its application


    Contributors:
    Izawa, Y. (author) / Yamanaka, M. (author) / Nakai, S. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    106606 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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