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Sub Nanosecond Pulse Generation by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering using FC-75 in an Integrated Setup with Laser Energy up to 1.5 J

Anirban Mitra, Hidetsugu Yoshida, Hisanori Fujita and Masahiro Nakatsuka

(Received July 14, 2005; accepted December 2, 2005; published online March 8, 2006)

We have demonstrated the short pulse generation of Nd:YAG laser at the fundamental wavelength by using stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in liquid FC-75 at the energy of 1.5 J with a compact single set-up consists of generator and amplifier. Minimum pulse width obtained without attenuator and with attenuator are 770 ps and 600 ps respectively. SBS Conversion efficiencies are 90% without attenuator and 55% with attenuator. The brightness of the compressed pulse was about twelve fold higher than that of incident pulse.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/45/1607/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.45.1607
KEYWORDS:stimulated Brillouin scattering, phase conjugation, pulse compression

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