MBI Staff Member – Personal info
Dr. Johannes Tuemmler
johannes.tuemmler(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1311
B3: Laser Development
Building B, 3.3
Position
- Project Member 4.1 "Implementation of Lasers and Measuring Techniques"
Research
The development of thin-disk laser technology was a very important topic for MBI during the last several years. These developments are now used on a daily basis for different applications, e.g. as driver laser for a laser-plasma based soft X-ray source.
OPCPA systems with their broadband amplification spectrum and the resulting very short pulse duration are of increasing importance to study ultra-fast dynamics. We have integrated two of our Yb:YAG regenerative thin-disk lasers as pump lasers in an OPCPA laser system to generate sub-10 fs pulses with 30 mJ pulse energy.
This OPCPA system has been set up, recently, and is used for experiments since December 2018. In three successive OPCPA stages the pulse energy of a broadband seed pulse is amplified to more than 30 mJ. Challenging in the setup of OPCPA systems is the temporal overlap of seed and pump pulses. The timing has to be monitored to compensated for thermal drifts and timing jitter due to e.g. vibrations or air turbulences. The compression with low energy loss of the broadband amplified pulse is also of major importance. We use a combination of glass compressor and chirped mirrors to reach a pulse duration well below 10 fs.
This system is still under further development in close contact to the users and depending on the needs of their experiments.
Recent highlight(s)
- OPCPA system emitting pulses with energy ~30mJ, duration < 10 fs at 100 Hz repetition rate.
- Demonstration of more than 1 J pulse energy at 100 Hz repetition rate using a room-temperature ring amplifier based on thin-disk technology.
- Regenerative amplifier emitting more than 300 mJ pulse energy at 100 Hz repetition rate.
MBI Publications
- Note: Study of extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray emission of metal targets produced by laser-plasma-interaction Review of Scientific Instruments 82 (2011) 066103/1-3
- High-repetition-rate chirped-pulse-amplification thin-disk laser system with joule-level pulse energy Optics Letters 34 (2009) 1378-1380
- Research on the seeding of high-energy harmonic pulse into an x-ray lasing medium SPIE Proceedings Series 7451 (2009) 74510W/1-8
- X-ray laser takes the 100 Hz barrier SPIE Proceedings Series 7451 (2009) 745109-1
- Demonstration of a saturated Ni-like Ag X-ray laser pumped by a single profiled laser pulse from a 10-Hz Ti:sapphire laser system Physical Review A 77 (2008) 023807/1-6
- Characteristics of a Ni-like silver x-ray laser pumped by a single profiled laser pulse Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 25 (2008) B76-B84
- On the Way Towards a High Repetition Rate X-Ray Laser Proceedings of the 10th International Conference 2006 115 Springer Proceedings in Physics (2007) 161-171
- Generation of Ni-like Ag X-Ray Laser and High-Order Harmonics for Harmonic Seeded X-Ray Laser Proceedings of the 10th International Conference 2006 115 Springer Proceedings in Physics (2007) 183-189
- Full characterisation of a GRIP Ni-like amplifier for seeding with high harmonics SPIE Proc. 6702 (2007) 67020A-1/1-8
- Strong line enhancement at 24.7 nm in a boron-nitride capillary discharge irradiated by a femtosecond laser pulse 9th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers 186 (2005) 81-85