High-energy, all-solid-state, ultraviolet laser power-amplifier module design and its output-energy scaling principle

Appl Opt. 2002 Dec 20;41(36):7556-60. doi: 10.1364/ao.41.007556.

Abstract

We demonstrate that a coaxially pumped, large-aperture ultraviolet power-amplifier module with solid-state tunable laser medium Ce(3+):LiCaAlF6 has 98-mJ, 290-nm, and 3-ns output pulses with a sufficient extraction efficiency of 25%. The detailed information of design parameters, including the gain-coefficient dependence on pump condition, is successfully accumulated for further energy scaling for a terawatt-class ultraviolet chirped pulse amplification laser system or a high-pulse-energy laser system.