Fiber-based drive laser systems for the Cornell ERL electron photoinjector

Dimitre Ouzounov; Heng Li; Bruce Dunham; Frank Wise

doi:10.1117/12.841376

17 February 2010 Fiber-based drive laser systems for the Cornell ERL electron photoinjector

Dimitre Ouzounov, Heng Li, Bruce Dunham, Frank Wise

Proceedings Volume 7581, High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications IV; 75810N (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841376
Event: SPIE LASE, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Cornell University is developing a high brightness, high average current electron source for the injector of an Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) based synchrotron radiation source. Master oscillator-power amplifier (MOPA) laser systems have been developed to satisfy the requirements of the Cornell ERL high brightness electron photoinjector. One system operates at 50-MHz and low average power, and the second system operates at 1.3 GHz and high average power. The GHz system is comprised of a commercial harmonically mode-locked Yb-fiber oscillator, a SMF pre-amplifier, and a double-clad, large-mode area Yb-doped fiber amplifier. Currently, the system provides 45 watts infrared power in a train of 3-ps-long pulses at 1.3 GHz in a near diffraction-limited beam. A BBO Pockels cell is used to generate macropulse trains at various repetition rates. The infrared pulses are frequency-doubled to produce green beam average power of 15 watts. The green pulses (Gaussian shape, FWHM 2.5 ps) are efficiently shaped to flat-top pulses with sharp rise and fall times through differential delay in a set of birefringent crystals (YVO₄). The transverse shaping is implemented with commercial refractive beam shaper (Newport). The laser systems design and characterization will be presented. Future work will address achieving of even larger average powers.

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Dimitre Ouzounov, Heng Li, Bruce Dunham, and Frank Wise "Fiber-based drive laser systems for the Cornell ERL electron photoinjector", Proc. SPIE 7581, High Energy/Average Power Lasers and Intense Beam Applications IV, 75810N (17 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841376

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