Spatial filter with volume gratings for high-peak-power multistage laser amplifiers

Yi-zhou Tan; Yi-sheng Yang; Guang-wei Zheng; Ben-jian Shen; Heng-yue Pan; Li Liu

doi:10.1117/12.861099

16 August 2010 Spatial filter with volume gratings for high-peak-power multistage laser amplifiers

Yi-zhou Tan, Yi-sheng Yang, Guang-wei Zheng, Ben-jian Shen, Heng-yue Pan, Li Liu

Proceedings Volume 7789, Laser Beam Shaping XI; 77890P (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.861099
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The regular spatial filters comprised of lens and pinhole are essential component in high power laser systems, such as lasers for inertial confinement fusion, nonlinear optical technology and directed-energy weapon. On the other hand the pinhole is treated as a bottleneck of high power laser due to harmful plasma created by the focusing beam. In this paper we present a spatial filter based on angular selectivity of Bragg diffraction grating to avoid the harmful focusing effect in the traditional pinhole filter. A spatial filter consisted of volume phase gratings in two-pass amplifier cavity were reported. Two-dimensional filter was proposed by using single Pi-phase-shifted Bragg grating, numerical simulation results shown that its angular spectrum bandwidth can be less than 160urad. The angular selectivity of photo-thermorefractive glass and RUGATE film filters, construction stability, thermal stability and the effects of misalignments of gratings on the diffraction efficiencies under high-pulse-energy laser operating condition are discussed.

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Yi-zhou Tan, Yi-sheng Yang, Guang-wei Zheng, Ben-jian Shen, Heng-yue Pan, and Li Liu "Spatial filter with volume gratings for high-peak-power multistage laser amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 7789, Laser Beam Shaping XI, 77890P (16 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.861099

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