High average power lasers and applications (1)

[ALPS16-02] Demonstration of Stable Long-Term 10 J, 100 Hz Operation of a Nanosecond Pulsed DPSSL

*Luke McHugh¹, Mariastefania De Vido¹, Gary Quinn^1,2, Danielle Clarke^1,2, Paul Mason¹, Jacob Spear¹, Jodie Smith¹, Martin Divoky³, Jan Pilar³, Ondrej Denk³, Thomas Butcher¹, Chris Edwards¹, Tomas Mocek³, John Collier¹ (1. Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 2. Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, 3. HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

We report on the successful stable long-term operation of a nanosecond diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL). DiPOLE-100Hz ran at 10 J, 100 Hz with an optical-to-optical efficiency of 25.4% and 1% rms energy stability.