THz generation experimental results in a filament plasma produced by focusing ultrashort Ti:Sapphire laser pulses at a wavelength of 950 nm are reported. A study of structure and time-resolved dynamics of forming the laser filament is carried out. THz radiation dependence from filament length and pump energy is also given. Optimal conditions for efficient THz generating were found.
A latest results obtained in THL-100 hybrid femtosecond laser system operating in the visible spectral range are presented and the ways of the peak power increase of the laser beam are discussed.
One way to obtain a multi-terawatt laser beams in the visible spectrum rang is direct amplification of the pulse in the output amplifier. Such method is being developed in IHCE SB RAS based on THL-100 hybrid laser system. This system uses solid-state and gas active media, namely: Ti:Sa femtosecond front-end and photodissociative XeF(C-A) amplifier. The front-end generates a transform-limited radiation pulse of 50 fs duration or a positive-chirped 50 ps pulse (FWHM) on second harmonic (475 nm). The XeF(C-A) amplifier can amplify the energy of front-end pulse up to 2-3 J. A compressor is required to recompress the amplified 50 ps radiation pulse to the transform-limited pulse duration. In this paper, we present the calculated parameters of the compressor based on the diffraction gratings and experimental data of the output radiation pulse compression of the front-end. The compressor optics scheme, its parameters and adjustment technique are presented. The compressing possibility of 50 ps second harmonic pulse to a duration of 75 fs in the grating compressor at a pulse energy of 7 mJ and a 1 cm beam diameter are demonstrated.
The results of the formation and amplification of positive chirped 0.1 ns laser pulse at a central wavelength of 470 nm in the laser system THL-100 are presented. It is shown that a front-end allows forming a radiation pulse with a Gaussian intensity profile and the energy up to 7 mJ. At amplification in XeF(C-A) amplifier of the pulse with 2-5 mJ energy a saturated mode is realized and 3.2 J output laser beam energy is reached.
The influence of the optical inhomogeneities effect of the prism stretcher elements on the spatial, angular and spectral parameters of the transmitted radiation and the degree of change in the phase aberrations of the laser beam during its propagation in the stretcher are studied. It is shown that the prism material does not allow transmitting of a required diameter of 75 mm without linear distortions of the beam. The maximum intensity and beam diameter allowing to amplify the picosecond pulses in XeF(C-A) amplifier are determined.
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