VULCAN

VULCAN
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VULCAN

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Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK OX11 0QX
phone: +44 1235 821900
fax: +44 1235 445808
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1 ns, 2.6 kJ, 2.6 TW, 1054 nm
40 J, < 1 ps, 100 TW, 1054 nm
1 kJ, 527 nm
500 J, 500 fs, 1 PW, 10²¹ W cm^-2 (upgrade)
two 92 cm CPA diffraction gratings separated by 13 m, in vacuum chamber (upgrade)
70 cm diameter beam
360 kg turning mirror
Nd:glass disk amplifier

Diagram. (note new target area on the east side of R1 adjoining TA East) From Vulcan upgrade description
Output stages (see close-up)
Large aperture Nd:glass laser disk from the Phebus laser to be used in Vulcan upgrade
Support structure for 208 mm laser amplifier disks (originally used in NOVA) pumped by four pairs of large bore (25mm) flashlamps operating at 20kV to be used on the Vulcan Petawatt upgrade. from 208 Amplifier test results see also plot of small signal gain
Broad bandwidth pre-amplifier (Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification, OPCPA)
Nd:glass disk amplifier held by Prof. Henry Hutchinson, Director of CLF from Dr John Taylor Visits CLF
Laser amplifier support structure from Open House July 1998
Peter Hatton beside ultra-short pulse interaction chamber, beam is 3 times diffraction limited, 10 micron focus spot (from facilities at CLF)
PhD student J Lin (Univ. of Essex) beside ultra-short pulse interaction chamber 200 TW, 10²⁰ W cm^-2, subpicosecond.
Target chamber (HRH The Duke of Kent and Professor Henry Hutchinson, Director, CLF) from HRH The Duke of Kent visits CLF
Kalachnikov, et al. : 1998, Phys. Rev. A 57, 4778. Saturated operation of a transient collisional x-ray laser
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