Acquisition of Ti/Sapphire Amplifier for Upgrading Powerful Subpicosecond Laser Facility

采购钛/蓝宝石放大器以升级强大的亚皮秒激光设施

• 批准号: 0079509
• 负责人: Szymon Suckewer
• 金额: $ 44.8万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-15 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0079509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Ti; Sapphire; Amplifier; Upgrading

This proposal requests funds to upgrade the existing Princeton Subpicosecond Laser Facility by replacing the current KrF amplifiers with a 600 mJ, 10 Hz repetition rate, multipass Ti/Sapphire amplifier. The funds requested are for direct purchase of the system from a commercial company. The first objective of the upgraded system is to further exploit ideas for the development of a compact soft x-ray laser in the "water window" region of the spectrum that is potentially so valuable for biological applications. At the same time, the facility would serve as a resource for faculty members and graduate students from different departments in multi-disciplinary projects, including Raman amplification of subpicosecond pulses, study of surface modification of solid materials, and the study of property changes in thin layers of semiconductor materials.

该提案要求提供资金，以升级现有的普林斯顿亚皮秒激光设施，用600 mJ、10 Hz重复率、多通道Ti/Sapphire放大器取代目前的KrF放大器。 所要求的资金用于直接向一家商业公司购买该系统。 升级后的系统的第一个目标是进一步利用在光谱的“水窗”区域中开发紧凑型软X射线激光的想法，这对生物应用具有潜在的价值。 与此同时，该设施将成为来自不同部门的教师和研究生进行多学科项目的资源，包括亚皮秒脉冲的拉曼放大、固体材料表面改性研究以及半导体材料薄层性质变化的研究。