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multimodal and circular. The second harmonic is generated in Lithium triborate (LBO)<br />

which is isolated by a dichroic mirror. The diode pump chamber, acousto-optic crystal and<br />

LBO are cooled by water maintained ~20C. In the present study the pump laser used is JADE<br />

from Thales Lasers. The output energy, wavelength, polarization and repetition rate are 20W,<br />

527nm, horizontal and 1kHz respectively. The pulse width of JADE is ~280ns.The design of<br />

JADE laser is described in the figure 2.8.<br />

Dichroic Mirror<br />

Polarizer<br />

LBO<br />

Output<br />

AO<br />

Crystal<br />

Polarizer<br />

DPCH<br />

Figure 2.8. Optical layout of JADE laser used for amplification.<br />

Layout of regenerative amplifier is given in the figure 2.9. The amplifier cavity is<br />

linear and consists of highly reflective mirrors for 800nm light. The gain medium used in the<br />

present system is Ti-S. The regenerative amplifier is pumped by JADE and is seeded by the<br />

stretcher output with pulses stretched to hundreds of ps. The polarization of seed pulse from<br />

stretcher is horizontal. The seed pulses go through a wave plate and faraday isolator, this

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