Optical pumped ultra-short pulse CO2 lasers as drivers of laser-plasma accelerators and other applications
Jaroszynski, D. A. and Campbell, R. N. and Brunetti, E. and Yoffe, S. R.; Di Lazzaro, Paolo, ed. (2019) Optical pumped ultra-short pulse CO2 lasers as drivers of laser-plasma accelerators and other applications. In: XXII International Symposium on High Power Laser Systems and Applications. SPIE, Bellingham, WA. ISBN 9781510627512 (https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2522546)
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Abstract
Optically pumped CO 2 lasers can operate with high efficiency, high repetition rate and large bandwidths, suitable for producing ultra-short pulses at terawatts to petawatts, in contrast to conventional discharge-pumped CO2 lasers, which are restricted by the requirements of discharge dynamics in high-pressure gas. We show how an optically pumped CO2 laser can be realised and we consider its application in laser-driven acceleration. There is potential to replace conventional transversely excited atmospheric CO2 lasers with diode-pumped solid-state lasers as a pump laser for a high-pressure CO2 gain medium, making it suitable for amplifying ultra-short pulses. We show that by driving a laser plasma wakefield accelerator with an ultra-short pulse CO 2 laser, a very high charge, high average current, high energy accelerator can be constructed. This could have a major impact on the application of these novel accelerators and radiation sources based on them.
ORCID iDs
Jaroszynski, D. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3006-5492, Campbell, R. N., Brunetti, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8302-9762 and Yoffe, S. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6723-4990; Di Lazzaro, Paolo-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 67316 Dates: DateEvent3 January 2019Published9 August 2018AcceptedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 14 Mar 2019 16:40 Last modified: 25 Sep 2024 00:31 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/67316