Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics, 2016, 14 (1): 036108, Published Online: Mar. 23, 2017  

Far-field detection system for laser beam and crystal alignment

Author Affiliations
1 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19 Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China
2 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, No. 390, Qing he Road, Shanghai 201800, China
3 China Academy of Engineering Physics, Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, No. 390, Qing he Road, Shanghai 201800, China
Abstract
Laser beam far-field alignment as well as frequency-doubling and frequency-tripling crystal adjustment is very important for high-power laser facility. Separate systems for beam and crystal alignment are generally used while the proposed approach by off-axial grating sampling share common optics for these two functions, reducing both space and cost requirements. This detection system has been demonstrated on the National Laser Facility of Israel. The experimental results indicate that the average far-field alignment error is <5% of the spatial filter pinhole diameter, average autocollimation angle error of crystals is <10 μrad, and average frequency-tripling conversion efficiency is 69.3%, which meet the alignment system requirements on the beam direction and crystals.
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Jiachen Zhang, Daizhong Liu, Baoqiang Zhu, Shunxing Tang, Yanqi Gao. Far-field detection system for laser beam and crystal alignment[J]. Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics, 2016, 14(1): 036108.

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