In the laser market, there have been various kinds of lasers designed and utilized for
different purposes. As time goes on, their powers have been gradually increased
from kilowatts (kW) to terawatts (TW). One of the most famous methods in laser
science technology is Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) which enables table-top
terawatt laser systems. This method provides high output power (tens of TW), very
short pulse duration (few tens of femtoseconds) and large energy (mJ) for ultrafast
lasers. One of the most well-known ultrafast lasers is Titanium:Sapphire laser. This
thesis work concentrates on how delay a pulse generator should work so that Verdi
and the oscillator pulse coincide. Moreover, by assembling a terawatt laser system,
the most important issues are timing between seed pulse and pump pulse and time
delays of all components of this system / autocorrelator, pump source, photodiode,
Pockels cell, stretcher and dazzler were examined. This timing and the time delays
were separately identified for terawatt laser systems. In this study, the aim is to
attain the terawatt level output by arranging pump and seed pulses timing and the
time delay on the components of the laser system setup.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610017/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2008 |
| Creators | Yilmaz, Remziye Pinar |
| Contributors | Altan, Hakan |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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