Extreme photonics applications centre: high energy DPSSL pump for a 10 Hz PW-level laser

Agnieszka M. Wojtusiak; Jonathan Phillips; Jodie Smith; Paul Mason; Mariastefania De Vido; Thomas Butcher; Cristina Hernandez-Gomez; Chris Edwards; John Collier

doi:10.1117/12.2665736

9 June 2023 Extreme photonics applications centre: high energy DPSSL pump for a 10 Hz PW-level laser

Agnieszka M. Wojtusiak, Jonathan Phillips, Jodie Smith, Paul Mason, Mariastefania De Vido, Thomas Butcher, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Chris Edwards, John Collier

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Proceedings Volume 12577, High-power, High-energy Lasers and Ultrafast Optical Technologies; 1257707 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2665736
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2023, Prague, Czech Republic

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The Extreme Photonics Applications Centre is an upcoming state-of-the-art research facility under construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. It will deliver petawatt pulses at an unprecedented rate of 10 Hz, made possible by pumping titanium-doped sapphire gain medium with a diode-pumped solid state laser (DPSSL) based on the Central Laser Facility’s cryogenic DiPOLE technology. We will briefly present the DPSSL pump design and its incorporation into the wider PW system, reporting on the most up-todate commissioning status and results of the DPSSL pump laser, which is on target to be fully commissioned by summer 2023.

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Agnieszka M. Wojtusiak, Jonathan Phillips, Jodie Smith, Paul Mason, Mariastefania De Vido, Thomas Butcher, Cristina Hernandez-Gomez, Chris Edwards, and John Collier "Extreme photonics applications centre: high energy DPSSL pump for a 10 Hz PW-level laser", Proc. SPIE 12577, High-power, High-energy Lasers and Ultrafast Optical Technologies, 1257707 (9 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2665736

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