High-power, low-coherence laser driver facility

Opt Lett. 2020 Dec 15;45(24):6839-6842. doi: 10.1364/OL.412197.

Abstract

We report the first (to the best of our knowledge) high-power, low-coherence Nd:glass laser delivering kilojoule pulses with a coherent time of 249 fs and a bandwidth of 13 nm, achieving the 63%-efficiency second-harmonic conversion of the large-aperture low-coherence pulse and good beam smoothing effect. It provides a new type of laser driver for laser plasma interaction and high energy density physics research.