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Published on: July 12, 2017
High-energy, high-average-power laser with Nd:YLF rods corrected by magnetorheological finishing
Vincent Bagnoud1, Mark J Guardalben, Jason Puth
1Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA. vbag@lle.rochester.edu
Abstract:
A high-energy, high-average-power laser system, optimized to efficiently pump a high-performance optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier at 527 nm, has been demonstrated. The crystal large-aperture ring amplifier employs two flash-lamp-pumped, 25.4-mm-diameter Nd:YLF rods. The transmitted wave front of these rods is corrected by magnetorheological finishing to achieve nearly diffraction-limited output performance with frequency-doubled pulse energies up to 1.8 J at 5 Hz.
