Design and performance of the Beamlet laser third-harmonic frequency converter

Charles E. Barker; Bruno M. Van Wonterghem; Jerome M. Auerbach; Richard J. Foley; John R. Murray; Jack H. Campbell; John A. Caird; David Ralph Speck; Bruce W. Woods

doi:10.1117/12.228325

8 December 1995 Design and performance of the Beamlet laser third-harmonic frequency converter

Charles E. Barker, Bruno M. Van Wonterghem, Jerome M. Auerbach, Richard J. Foley, John R. Murray, Jack H. Campbell, John A. Caird, David Ralph Speck, Bruce W. Woods

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Proceedings Volume 2633, Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF); (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.228325
Event: Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF), 1995, Monterey, CA, United States

Abstract

The Beamlet laser is a full-scale, single-aperture scientific prototype of the frequency-tripled Nd:glass laser for the proposed National Ignition Facility. At aperture sizes of 30 cm by 30 cm and 34 cm by 34 cm using potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals of 32 cm by 32 cm and 37 cm by 37 cm, respectively, we have obtained up to 8.3 kJ of third harmonic energy at 70% - 80% whole beam conversion efficiency.

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Charles E. Barker, Bruno M. Van Wonterghem, Jerome M. Auerbach, Richard J. Foley, John R. Murray, Jack H. Campbell, John A. Caird, David Ralph Speck, and Bruce W. Woods "Design and performance of the Beamlet laser third-harmonic frequency converter", Proc. SPIE 2633, Solid State Lasers for Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF), (8 December 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.228325

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