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| author | Kim, Jihoon Rajawat, Roopendra Blinova, Polina Mironov, Andrey Holec, Milan Steinforth, Austin Galloway, Conner Rocca, Jorge Shvets, Gennady |
| author_facet | Kim, Jihoon Rajawat, Roopendra Blinova, Polina Mironov, Andrey Holec, Milan Steinforth, Austin Galloway, Conner Rocca, Jorge Shvets, Gennady |
| contents | Attaining practical Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) depends on how efficiently one can couple the driver energy to the nuclear fusion fuel for compression and ignition. While the excimer lasers provide an efficient alternative compared to existing laser technology, it is unclear how the lasers can be harnessed to form a pulse with desired pulse shape and intensity. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) provides a path to compressing long, energetic pulses to short intense ones. We consider the equations governing SBS in the Strongly Damped Limit (SDL) and find that it is possible to almost completely specify the final pulse shape by providing an appropriate initial seed pulse. We provide analytic expressions for reverse-engineering the initial seed shape and delineate physical limits concerning the prepulse level. |
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| spellingShingle | Simultaneous amplification and shaping of excimer lasers using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the strongly damped limit Kim, Jihoon Rajawat, Roopendra Blinova, Polina Mironov, Andrey Holec, Milan Steinforth, Austin Galloway, Conner Rocca, Jorge Shvets, Gennady Optics Attaining practical Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) depends on how efficiently one can couple the driver energy to the nuclear fusion fuel for compression and ignition. While the excimer lasers provide an efficient alternative compared to existing laser technology, it is unclear how the lasers can be harnessed to form a pulse with desired pulse shape and intensity. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) provides a path to compressing long, energetic pulses to short intense ones. We consider the equations governing SBS in the Strongly Damped Limit (SDL) and find that it is possible to almost completely specify the final pulse shape by providing an appropriate initial seed pulse. We provide analytic expressions for reverse-engineering the initial seed shape and delineate physical limits concerning the prepulse level. |
| title | Simultaneous amplification and shaping of excimer lasers using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the strongly damped limit |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17956 |