LWIR picosecond source for Ultra-short High Intensity CO2 Laser
Abstract
This DURIP will enable the assembly of a unique picosecond-duration long-wavelength infra-red (LWIR), high-intensity CO2 laser system that will provide the ARO MURI program on Laser Filamentation Science the capability to extend their program, currently based on 800 nm Ti:Sapphire laser pulses, to study filamentation at LWIR laser wavelengths. The leadership of the ARO Filamentation MURI has long promoted the added potential of augmenting filament propagation with secondary long wavelength radiation (Mid-IR and LWIR laser radiation, THz radiation and high power microwaves (HPM). We are now very pleased to report that our ARO Filamentation MURI team at UCF is joining forces with AMRDEC, Redstone Arsenal to extend the laser filamentation and propagation capabilities at UCF to the LWIR region. With the intellectual involvement of Dr Henry Everitt, both in his capacity of as Senior Research Scientist at AMRDEC and his academic appointment as a Adj. Professor of Physics at Duke University, AMRDEC is transferring to RichardsonÕs Laser Plasma Laboratory at UCF (LPL) two highpower CO2 laser modules under a long-term loan agreement. We will incorporate these modules into a pulsed 10 µm laser system synchronized initially to the Multi-TW Femtosecond Laser (MTFL) used in LPL for most of the filamentation experiments. The funds we request in this DURIP are for the purchase of a front-end solid-state laser source providing mJ-level, 10 ps pulses at 10 µm, suitable to seed a multipass high pressure CO2 amplifier chain. The components for this amplifier chain are being provided by Dr Henry Everitt from AMRDEC.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 11, 2018
- Source ID
- W911NF1710207
Entities
People
- Martin Richardson
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of Central Florida