LASER SYSTEMS
These are intended to study and to provide different schemes for creating laser system, including schemes for ICF experiments, to control the high-power radiation characteristics and the interaction between condensed medium and atmosphere, to develop the optical components and sub-assemblies for the super-power lasers.
Laser research area of our Institute is oriented to the development and creation of the multipurpose laser systems such as solid-state and gas lasers.
These laser systems enabled us to obtain important results in power optics, in the physics of photodissociation iodine lasers with a multiple excitation source, in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments, in phase conjugation of Nd-and CO2 lasers for achieving a small divergence angle, in methods for the accurate laser beam pointing.
Record-braking parameters for a laser system have been obtained at NIIKI OEP, by using a fundamentally new technology which can be applied to high-power Nd-glass lasers of nano-pico-and femtosecond duration.
Our experience in laser research makes it possible for us to provide consultancy in the area of laser technology:
- designing, development, manufacture of solid-state lasers and their elements and systems, including sophisticated Nd-glass laser systems of picosecond to nanoseccond pulse duration, with a pulse power up to hundreds terawatts and with a pulse energy up to several kilojoules;
- calculation of dimensions and aberrations for various laser schemes and systems;
- carrying out of fundamental and applied research in laser radiation-material interaction based on solid-state lasers generating first, second and third harmonics;
- development of high-energy laser systems with low angular divergence using methods of nonlinear optics (phase conjugation);
- research into propagation of laser radiation through atmospheric turbulence where the value of the structure constant of the turbulent atmosphere varies over a wide range;
- development of lasers and laser systems using crystals and operating in the pulsed and pulse-periodic modes;
- development of lasers with fast precision beam steering based on intracavity scanning using an electrically controlled PLZT-based spatial light modulators;
- development of metal-vapor lasers;
- development of compact high-power CO2 lasers, including slab lasers;
- development of lasers for medical and biophysical research with parameters varying over a wide range.
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