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Laser with phase conjugation for high intensity interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

S.M. KULIKOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
Y.V. DOLGOPOLOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
A.M. DUDOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
G.G. KOCHEMASOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
G.A. KIRILLOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
S.N. PEVNY
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
A.B. SMIRNOV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
S.P. SMYSHLYAEV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
S.A. SUKHAREV
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
A.F. SHKAPA
Affiliation:
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIEF), 607190, Sarov, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia

Abstract

We present the results of the experimental testing of the laser facility LAMBDA, created and built at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center for generation of quasi-steady-state laser fields in microvolumes.

The facility includes: a single mode generator of reference radiation (RR) producing about 10 mJ energy in a pulse of controlled length from 3 to 30 ns; a target chamber with an input objective focusing the RR beam to a micron-size spot, and a 280-mm-diameter parabolic mirror with the focal length also of 270 mm; a two-stage iodine amplifier with the small signal gain coefficient 3·105 per one pass, to the input of which radiation from the target chamber formed by the (microobjective + parabolic mirror) system is applied; a phase conjugating device with the system for the selection of the phase-conjugated component, which allows us to realize the pulse compression in the amplifier stages, and to provide the compensation of the optical aberrations after the second pass amplification and focusing of high-power radiation into the microvolume; a complex for diagnostics of plasma and laser radiation parameters.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1999 Cambridge University Press

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