Ohland, Jonas Benjamin (2022)
Design and Setup of a Post-Compressor Adaptive Optics Loop at PHELIX.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00021995
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication, Publisher's Version
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Design and Setup of a Post-Compressor Adaptive Optics Loop at PHELIX | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Bagnoud, Prof. Dr. Vincent ; Roth, Prof. Dr. Markus | ||||
Date: | 2022 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Collation: | xii, 152 Seiten | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 13 July 2022 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00021995 | ||||
Abstract: | This work aimed to provide advanced control over the focal spot of the PHELIX laser by the means of implementing a post-compressor adaptive optics loop. The ultimate goal was to increase the peak intensity on the target, which is critical for a lot of experiments that are based on laser-plasma interaction. Over the course of this thesis, I implemented an ultra-compact wavefront sensor, which could successfully measure the wavefront over the full 28 cm aperture of the PHELIX laser on a footprint of 2×1 meters for the full energy range of PHELIX. This sensor was used to run a closed control loop with a commercial deformable mirror. Furthermore, I developed a calibration routine for the sensor, which enabled finding the optimum achivable wavefront at the focal spot in the target chamber. Together with this routine, I was able to triple the intensity on target up to 1.4·10²¹ W/cm². This was the first time where an intensity of more than 10²¹ W/cm² could be reached systematically at PHELIX. Lastly, we performed an experiment in the group which provided a qualitative prove of the on-shot intensity gain by observing the transmission of the laser pulse through polystyrene foils of various thicknesses. The result verified the successful optimization of the peak intensity. |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | laser, adaptive optics, beam quality, high intensity, laser diagnostics, on shot, strehl, wavefront | ||||
Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-219951 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Applied Physics | ||||
Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2022 12:02 | ||||
Last Modified: | 22 Aug 2022 07:24 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/21995 | ||||
PPN: | 498348474 | ||||
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