Simmyung Laser System and Study on the X-ray Generation

신명 레이저와 X-선 발생 연구

  • Kong, Hong-Jin (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Han, Ki-Gwan (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Nam-Seong (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Soo (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Um, Ki-Young (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Park, Jong-Rak (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Jae-Youg (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Shin, Yun-Sup (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Han, Ki-Ho (Department of Physics, Korea advanced Insitute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 1995.06.01

Abstract

A high-power Nb:glass laser system(Simmyung I) has been contructed and tested. In this system, we used a Nb:YLF laser as a master oscillator, a 4-pass amplifier for pre-amplification, 5 stages of rod amplifiers, and spatial filtering and image reaying usits. The system has demonstrated in excess of 80J(2TW) with 40 psec(FWHM) pulse duration. Output energy, gain and spatial were measured at each amplification stage. With this laser system a preliminary X-ray generation experiment was performed. Pinhole images, X-ray diode signals and X-ray speriment were obtained for the irradiated target of copper. Detailed descriptions of the system performance and the X-tay generation experiment are presented.

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