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An ultra-high gain and efficient amplifier based on Raman amplification in plasma [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2017.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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Article numbers 2,399 : digital, PDF file
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
Raman amplification arising from the excitation of a density echelon in plasma could lead to amplifiers that significantly exceed current power limits of conventional laser media. Here we show that 1–100 J pump pulses can amplify picojoule seed pulses to nearly joule level. The extremely high gain also leads to significant amplification of backscattered radiation from “noise”, arising from stochastic plasma fluctuations that competes with externally injected seed pulses, which are amplified to similar levels at the highest pump energies. The pump energy is scattered into the seed at an oblique angle with 14 J sr-1, and net gains of more than eight orders of magnitude. The maximum gain coefficient, of 180 cm-1, exceeds high-power solid-state amplifying media by orders of magnitude. The observation of a minimum of 640 J sr-1 directly backscattered from noise, corresponding to ≈10% of the pump energy in the observation solid angle, implies potential overall efficiencies greater than 10%.
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E 1.99:llnl-jrnl--729352
llnl-jrnl--729352
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Published through SciTech Connect.
05/25/2017.
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Scientific Reports 7 ISSN 2045-2322 AM
G. Vieux; S. Cipiccia; D. W. Grant; N. Lemos; P. Grant; C. Ciocarlan; B. Ersfeld; M. S. Hur; P. Lepipas; G. G. Manahan; G. Raj; D. Reboredo Gil; A. Subiel; G. H. Welsh; S. M. Wiggins; S. R. Yoffe; J. P. Farmer; C. Aniculaesei; E. Brunetti; X. Yang; R. Heathcote; G. Nersisyan; C. L. S. Lewis; A. Pukhov; J. M. Dias; D. A. Jaroszynski.
Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Heinrich Heine Univ. Dusseldorf (HHU) (Germany)
European Commission (EC) (Belgium)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Germany)
German Research Foundation (DFG) (Germany)
Funding Information
AC52-07NA27344
EP/N028694/1
EP/I029206/1
H2020 EC-GA 654148
CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_008/0000162
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