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Long term stabilization of the beam combination laser with a phase controlled stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugation mirrors for the laser fusion driver

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

HONG JIN KONG ,
JIN WOO YOON ,
JAE SUNG SHIN ,
DU HYUN BEAK  and
BONG JU LEE
HONG JIN KONG
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
JIN WOO YOON
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
JAE SUNG SHIN
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
DU HYUN BEAK
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
BONG JU LEE
Affiliation:
Research and Development Division, National Fusion Research Center, Daejeon, Korea
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Abstract

Laser fusion requires very high energy/power output with high repetition rate over 10 Hz, which is very difficult with the current laser technologies. However, the recent research work on the phase controlling of the stimulated Brillouin scattering wave enables the realization of this kind of laser fusion driver. The recent progress of controlling the phase has been successfully demonstrated by the self-generated density modulation method proposed by one of the authors (Kong). Nevertheless, it showed a long-term fluctuation of the phase because of the long-term fluctuation of the density of the SBS medium due to the thermal fluctuation. This long-term thermal fluctuation is inevitable a fact in nature. The authors used a specially designed stabilizing system for the phase controlling system, which has the PZT control of the mirror for phase controlling SBS-PCM (the so-called feedback mirror). This system stabilizes the phase controlling system very well for more than 1 h. This technique will help the laser fusion driver to be realized sooner than expected. In addition, we propose a similar scheme to be applied to the ultra-fast pulse laser system, which must operate at high repetition rate for the laser fusion energy power plant.

Keywords

Beam combinationHigh power laserLaser fusionLong-term stabilizationPhase conjugate mirrorStimulated Brillouin scattering
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 519 - 523
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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