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Compact nanosecond laser system for the ignition of aeronautic combustion engines

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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 120, Issue 23, Pages -

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AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4971964

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  1. French National Research Agency (ANR) under the project ECLAIR
  2. Conseil Regional d'Aquitaine under the project ParaSources

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We have studied and developed a compact nanosecond laser system dedicated to the ignition of aeronautic combustion engines. This system is based on a nanosecond microchip laser delivering 6 mu J nanosecond pulses, which are amplified in two successive stages. The first stage is based on an Ytterbium doped fiber amplifier (YDFA) working in a quasi-continuous-wave (QCW) regime. Pumped at 1 kHz repetition rate, it delivers TEM00 and linearly polarized nanosecond pulses centered at 1064 nm with energies up to 350 mu J. These results are in very good agreement with the model we specially designed for a pulsed QCW pump regime. The second amplification stage is based on a compact Nd:YAG double-pass amplifier pumped by a 400W peak power QCW diode centered at lambda = 808 nm and coupled to a 800 mu m core multimode fiber. At 10 Hz repetition rate, this system amplifies the pulse delivered by the YDFA up to 11 mJ while preserving its beam profile, polarization ratio, and pulse duration. Finally, we demonstrate that this compact nanosecond system can ignite an experimental combustion chamber. Published by AIP Publishing.

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