Status of HiLASE project: High average power pulsed DPSSL systems for research and industry

T. Mocek; M. Divoky; M. Smrz; M. Sawicka; M. Chyla; P. Sikocinski; H. Vohnikova; P. Severova; A. Lucianetti; J. Novak; B. Rus

doi:10.1051/epjconf/20135908003

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EPJ Web of Conferences 59, 08003 (2013)
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Status of HiLASE project: High average power pulsed DPSSL systems for research and industry

T. Mocek¹, M. Divoky¹, M. Smrz¹, M. Sawicka¹, M. Chyla¹, P. Sikocinski¹, H. Vohnikova¹, P. Severova¹, A. Lucianetti¹, J. Novak² and B. Rus²

¹ HiLASE Project, Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
² ELI Beamlines Project, Institute of Physics ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic

Published online: 15 November 2013

Abstract

We introduce the Czech national R&D project HiLASE which focuses on strategic development of advanced high-repetition rate, diode pumped solid state laser (DPSSL) systems that may find use in research, high-tech industry and in the future European large-scale facilities such as HiPER and ELI. Within HiLASE we explore two major concepts: thin-disk and cryogenically cooled multislab amplifiers capable of delivering average output powers above 1 kW level in picosecond-to-nanosecond pulsed regime. In particular, we have started a programme of technology development to demonstrate the scalability of multislab concept up to the kJ level at repetition rate of 1–10 Hz.

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