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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02770 |
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| author | Ou, Ke Perez-Ramirez, Victor M. Cao, Sida Redshaw, Caleb Lee, Jin Wang, Michelle M. Mikhailova, Julia M. Michel, Pierre Edwards, Matthew R. |
| author_facet | Ou, Ke Perez-Ramirez, Victor M. Cao, Sida Redshaw, Caleb Lee, Jin Wang, Michelle M. Mikhailova, Julia M. Michel, Pierre Edwards, Matthew R. |
| contents | This letter presents a spatial filter based on saturated absorption in gas as a replacement for the solid pinhole in a lens-pinhole-lens filtering system. We show that an ultraviolet laser pulse focused through ozone will have its spatial profile cleaned if its peak fluence rises above the ozone saturation fluence. Specifically, we demonstrate that a 5 ns 266 nm beam with 4.2 mJ of initial energy can be effectively cleaned by focusing through a 1.4% ozone-oxygen mixture, with about 76% of the main beam energy transmitted and 89% of the side lobe energy absorbed. This process can be adapted to other gases and laser wavelengths, providing alignment-insensitive and damage-resistant pinholes for high-repetition-rate high-energy lasers. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | High-energy transient gas pinholes via saturated absorption Ou, Ke Perez-Ramirez, Victor M. Cao, Sida Redshaw, Caleb Lee, Jin Wang, Michelle M. Mikhailova, Julia M. Michel, Pierre Edwards, Matthew R. Optics This letter presents a spatial filter based on saturated absorption in gas as a replacement for the solid pinhole in a lens-pinhole-lens filtering system. We show that an ultraviolet laser pulse focused through ozone will have its spatial profile cleaned if its peak fluence rises above the ozone saturation fluence. Specifically, we demonstrate that a 5 ns 266 nm beam with 4.2 mJ of initial energy can be effectively cleaned by focusing through a 1.4% ozone-oxygen mixture, with about 76% of the main beam energy transmitted and 89% of the side lobe energy absorbed. This process can be adapted to other gases and laser wavelengths, providing alignment-insensitive and damage-resistant pinholes for high-repetition-rate high-energy lasers. |
| title | High-energy transient gas pinholes via saturated absorption |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02770 |