High-intensity short KrF laser-pulse generation by saturated amplification of truncated leading-edge pulse

A new method for the generation of high-intensity short KrF laser pulses was developed. The method efficiently uses truncated leading-edge seed-pulse generation by stimulated Brillouin scattering and pulse-shape steepening by saturated amplification, which is mainly based on the Frantz–Nodvik soluti...

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Published inOptics communications Vol. 185; no. 4; pp. 431 - 437
Main Authors Takahashi, E, Kuwahara, K, Matsumoto, Y, Okuda, I, Matsushima, I, Kato, S, Owadano, Y
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 15.11.2000
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Gas lasers including excimer and metal-vapor lasers
Inertial confinement fusion
KrF laser
Lasers
Optics
Physics
Inertial confinement fusion
KrF laser
Stimulated Brillouin scattering
Theoretical study
Mode locked laser
Excimer lasers
Experimental study
Pulse compression
Pulsed lasers
Nonlinear optics
Krypton fluoride lasers
ps range
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Summary:A new method for the generation of high-intensity short KrF laser pulses was developed. The method efficiently uses truncated leading-edge seed-pulse generation by stimulated Brillouin scattering and pulse-shape steepening by saturated amplification, which is mainly based on the Frantz–Nodvik solution. Short KrF pulses of 7 ps were obtained from 20 ns seed pulses without using mode-locked lasers. The experimental results agreed well with the numerical calculations.
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ISSN:0030-4018
1873-0310
DOI:10.1016/S0030-4018(00)01042-7