AUTHOR=Zhu Xuehua , Liu Chuangchuang , Gao Qilin , Su Hao , Sun Sizhou TITLE=Spatiotemporal shaping of high power laser pulses based on stimulated brillouin scattering JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=10 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2022.1110683 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2022.1110683 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=

We proposed and numerically demonstrated the combination of temporal and spatial shaping of high power nanosecond laser pulses based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in this paper. With the intensity-dependence characteristic of SBS, the higher intensity parts of the laser beam obtain higher reflectivity, and the incident non-uniform high power laser beam would be well smoothed. A parameter adjustable feedback control loop was used to tailor the output temporal profile by pre-compensating the temporal profile of the input pump. In our numerical simulation, a 3 ns super-Gaussian shaped single-frequency laser pulse with a 527 nm wavelength was used as the pump. And the heavy fluorocarbon FC-70 was chosen as the Brillouin medium. Simulation results show that the laser spatial modulation can be significantly pulled down when the energy efficiency is maintained above 90% in our beam smoothing system with suitable laser intensity. The flat-toped laser pulses both in temporal and spatial domain were demonstrated to be achievable simultaneously. The method proposed here paves a simple and effective way to optimizing the near field pattern and temporal shape of high power laser systems.