TY - JOUR
T1 - Temporal pulse-shaping for laser-fusion experiments using a cavity-dumped O-switched oscillator
AU - Jackel, S.
AU - Laluz, R.
AU - Paiss, Y.
AU - Szichman, H.
AU - Arad, B.
AU - Eliezer, S.
AU - Gazit, Y.
AU - Loebenstein, H. M.
AU - Zigler, A.
PY - 1982
Y1 - 1982
N2 - For the purpose of generating temporally shaped laser pulses in the nanosecond domain a cavity-dumped Q-switched oscillator has been constructed. It has proven to be versatile, efficient, reliable, and stable. Its performance has been demonstrated through the generation of flat-topped step pulses with rise-times of 0.2 ns and controllable duration of between 1 and 4 ns, and through the generation of double-step (Nuckolls type) pulses. Peak powers of 0.3 MW in TEM00, 1 mrad divergence pulses are routinely obtained. With one additional isolated stage 'slaved' to the cavity-dump Pockels cell, a prepulse energy contrast of 7*105 is achieved. Output energy variation is +or-7%.
AB - For the purpose of generating temporally shaped laser pulses in the nanosecond domain a cavity-dumped Q-switched oscillator has been constructed. It has proven to be versatile, efficient, reliable, and stable. Its performance has been demonstrated through the generation of flat-topped step pulses with rise-times of 0.2 ns and controllable duration of between 1 and 4 ns, and through the generation of double-step (Nuckolls type) pulses. Peak powers of 0.3 MW in TEM00, 1 mrad divergence pulses are routinely obtained. With one additional isolated stage 'slaved' to the cavity-dump Pockels cell, a prepulse energy contrast of 7*105 is achieved. Output energy variation is +or-7%.
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U2 - 10.1088/0022-3735/15/2/023
DO - 10.1088/0022-3735/15/2/023
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AN - SCOPUS:0020089291
SN - 0022-3735
VL - 15
SP - 255
EP - 259
JO - Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments
JF - Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments
IS - 2
M1 - 023
ER -