High peak power lasers, high pulse energy lasers and applications (3)

[ALPS3-01(Invited)] Faraday isolation and harmonic conversion (2ω, 3ω) on high energy kilowatt laser Bivoj

*Martin Divoký¹, Jonathan Phillips², David Vojna¹, Jan Pilar¹, Ondrej Slezak¹, Martin Hanus¹, Petr Navratil¹, Ondrej Denk¹, Tomas Paliesek¹, Patricie Severova¹, Danielle Clarke², Martin Smrz², Thomas Butcher², Tomas Mocek¹ (1. HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2. Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

We report on large aperture Faraday isolator for kW pulsed laser with 30 dB isolation ratio, on harmonic conversion to 95 J @515 nm (950 W average power) and 50 J @ 343 nm (500 W average power) at the repetition rate of 10 Hz.