Powerful short-pulse lasers pumped by the light of a shock wave front

Gennadi A. Kirillov; V. A. Eroshenko; Gennady G. Kochemasov; Stanislav M. Kulikov; S. N. Pevny; Stanislav A. Sukharev

doi:10.1117/12.380873

3 April 2000 Powerful short-pulse lasers pumped by the light of a shock wave front

Gennadi A. Kirillov, V. A. Eroshenko, Gennady G. Kochemasov, Stanislav M. Kulikov, S. N. Pevny, Stanislav A. Sukharev

Proceedings Volume 3889, Advanced High-Power Lasers; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.380873
Event: Advanced High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1999, Osaka, Japan

Abstract

Radiation of a shock wave front proved to be very powerful light source for pumping of high power lasers. Particularly, explosively pumped iodine photodissociation lasers (EPIL) are nowadays well developed type of device of multikilojoule level, rather convenient for many applications. Usually such lasers work in free running mode and generate pulses of microsecond duration. Generating short pulses of nanosecond range require employing amplification scheme where amplifiers must work in waiting mode. It implies substantially other composition of active medium and entails rather important consequences for kinetics of the processes which follow photodissociation. Present report considers these problems as well as some experimental results obtained with short pulse EPIL.

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Gennadi A. Kirillov, V. A. Eroshenko, Gennady G. Kochemasov, Stanislav M. Kulikov, S. N. Pevny, and Stanislav A. Sukharev "Powerful short-pulse lasers pumped by the light of a shock wave front", Proc. SPIE 3889, Advanced High-Power Lasers, (3 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.380873

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