Performance of the ASTERIX III high power iodine laser
For more than 500 shots the 1 TW iodine laser Asterix III has demonstrated high reliability for light-plasma-interaction experiments. Improved laser parameters and new measurements of light pulse properties are reported.
The asterix III pulsed high-power iodine laser
A system description and first results of the Asterix III high-power iodine laser built at IPP Garching are given. This laser is designed to yield an output energy of 1 kJ in about 1 ns. Until now pulses with output energies up to 300 J and pulse lengths ranging from 1 to 3 ns have been obtained.
60-J 1-nsec Iodine Laser
A systems description is given for a two−stage oscillator−amplifier iodine laser setup. Detailed technical data are reported and information is given on the pressure dependence of the oscillator pulse, the gas composition for the oscillator and amplifiers, the small−signal amplification, and the energy storage and energy extraction in the amplifier stages. These performance data demonstrate the suitability of this new laser system for high−energy short−pulse operation.