High Average Power Petawatt Laser Pumped by the Mercury Laser for Fusion Materials Engineering
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 56 / Number 1 / July 2009 / Pages 295-300
Fusion Materials / Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST18-P2.34
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A high average power diode pumped solid state laser is used to pump large aperture Ti:sapphire enabling high average power chirped pulse amplification. After compression, over a petawatt of peak power will be used to generate fusion ions and neutrons for materials testing of first wall and final optics candidates.
