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Title	DiPOLE: A multi-slab cryogenic diode pumped Yb:YAG amplifier
Contributors	S Banerjee (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), J Hein (Ed.), K Ertel (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), G Korn (Ed.), P Mason (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), LO Silva (Ed.), J Phillips (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), J Greenhalgh (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), J Collier (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Abstract	The Diode Pumped Optical Laser Experiments (DiPOLE) project at Central Laser Facility (CLF) is aimed at the development of scalable diode pumped, cryogenic gas cooled, multi-slab Yb:YAG amplifiers. Optimized designs for amplifiers capable of generating kJ pulse energies at multi-Hz repetition rate have been finalised and development of a scaled-down 10J, 10Hz prototype is currently underway at the CLF. We report on the recent results obtained on a 4-pass bowtie as well as 6-pass image relaying multi-pass setup for the DiPOLE amplifier. Additionally, Preliminary results for the amplifier performance with uniform doping (3 x 2at%) compared to gradient doping (2 x 1at% + 2 x 2at%) at cryogenic temperatures, confirms the multi-slab gradient doped design adopted for DiPOLE amplifier.
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Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Paper In Conference Proceedings	In SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, Prague, Czech Republic, Monday 15 April 2013, Proc SPIE 8780 (2013).	doi:10.1117/12.2016611		2013