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The SYLOS 2 laser provides more than 2.75 TW peak power pulses with less than 8 fs duration at 1 kHz repetition rate. The laser system is based on a sequence of noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (NOPCPA) stages consisting of BBO crystals (produced by Light Conversion Ltd.), which are driven by diode-pumped Nd:YAG lasers (produced by EKSPLA Ltd).
The laser system driving two attosecond sources at the Sylos Compact and the Sylos Long beamlines as well as various particle sources, like the Low-Energy Ion Acceleration experiment for neutron generation and a shortly commissioned laser driven wakefield electron acceleration (eSylos) and surface high harmonic beamlines (SHHG). The laser also drives a chemical reaction control setup with an attenuated beam (GPRC).
Figure 1 shows the schematic layout, while more details can be found in [1, 2].
Figure 1: Schematic layout of SYLOS 2
The most important output parameters are shown in Table 1. The energy can be varied from 15 mJ up to the maximum energy while other output parameters are kept constant. The energy can be reduced below 15 mJ as well, but all other laser parameters are not guaranteed. CEP setpoint can be adjusted continuously between 0 and 2π. The pulse duration can be stretched up to 200 fs with additional negative chirp or alternatively with limiting the spectrum at the expense of pulse energy.
Table 1: Measured parameters at the output of the SYLOS2 main laser beam.
The beam profile can be either Gaussian (Option 1) or super-Gaussian (Option 2) (Figure 2.). The corresponding beam diameters are shown in Fig. 2. and in Table 1. For internal experiments within the laser laboratory, we can provide a leakage beam simultaneously with the main beam as well. The parameters of this beam listed in Table 2.
Table 2: Measured parameters at the output of the SYLOS2 laser 1mJ beamline.
The typical output spectrum ranges from 720 nm to 1180 nm and it is plotted in Figure 3.
Figure 2: Output beam profile and beam size without (a) and with (b) spatial filtering.
Figure 3: Typical spectrum at the output.
Pulse duration:
Light Conversion own product delivered with the laser system
Sphere Photonics D-cycle NIR
Wavelength range: 700-1400 nm
PD (FTL): 2.5-60 fs
GDD range: +/-600fs^2
Beam profiler:
Light Conversion own product delivered with the laser system
Cinogy CinCam CMOS Nano 1.001
Active area (without cover glass): 11.3mm x 11.3mm
Number of pixel: 2048 x 2048 (4.2MPixel)
Pixel size: 5.5µm x 5.5µm
Energy meter:
Light Conversion own product delivered with the laser system
MAESTRO Digital controller + UP55M-500W-H12-D0 Thermopile detector
Aperture: 50-55 mm diameter
Cooling: Watercooled (up to 700W)
Max. avg power: 500W (continues)
Noise equivalent power: 15 mW
Spectral range: 0.193 - 20 um
MAESTRO Digital controller + QE8SP-B-BL-D0 Pyroelectric detector
Aperture: 7.8*7.8 mm
Spectral range: 0.193 - 20 um
Max. measurable enrgy: 2.5 mJ
Noise equivalent energy: 150 nJ
Temporal contrast:
Ultrafast Innovations Tundra High Dynamic Range Autocorrelator
Single Dynamic Range: 11@800nm
Delay Scan range: 633ps
Scan step resolution: 2 fs
Pulse energy: 50-150uJ
CEP measurement:
Light Conversion own product delivered with the laser system (f-2f interferometer)
Spectrum:
Avantes Compactline Avaspec-Mini3648-LIC1
Wavelength range: 600nm to 1100nm
Spectra resolution: 0.14 nm
Broadcom Qred NIR:
Wavelengths range: 900-1700 nm
Spectral resolution: 4 nm
[1] R. Budriūnas et al, Opt. Express 25 (2017).
[2] S Toth et al , J. Phys. Photonics 2 (2020).