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Robust method for long-term energy and pointing stabilization of high energy, high average power solid state lasers
Robert Boge1, Jakub Horáček1, Petr Mazůrek1
1Extreme Light Infrastructure-Beamlines, FZU AS CR, v.v.i., Za Radnicí 835, 252 41 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
A robust and simple method is presented for ensuring constant energy and pointing of a high average power solid state laser on a target. In addition to providing long-term stability, this scheme also eliminates any drifts in energy or pointing resulting from the initial warm-up after a cold start. This is achieved using two separate feedback loops: one loop stabilizes the pointing of the beam external to the amplifier cavity and the other locks the cavity mode to have optimum overlap with the pump spot on the active medium. The key idea of the cavity mode stabilization is to monitor the overlap of the cavity mode and the gain medium with a camera and control it with an actively controlled, intra-cavity mirror. While this method is demonstrated on a thin-disk regenerative amplifier, it can also be applied to a wide variety of solid state laser amplifiers.
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