S. Blake
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
5 Papers
1 Citations
S. Blake is an academic researcher from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Optical amplifier. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 5 publications.
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Scalable design for a high energy cryogenic gas cooled diode pumped laser amplifier
Paul Mason,M. Fitton,Andrew Lintern,Saumyabrata Banerjee,Klaus Ertel,T. Davenne,J. Hill,S. Blake,P. J. Phillips,Thomas Butcher,Jodie Smith,M. De Vido,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,Cristina Hernandez-Gomez,John Collier +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, a scalable design for a cryogenic helium gas cooled DPSSL amplifier based on a multislab Yb:YAG geometry is presented, which has been derived from computational fluid dynamic calculations and thermal modeling.
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Ps Front End of the PW Beamline for Vulcan Laser Facility
Giedre Archipovaite,Mario Galletti,Munadi Ahmad,S. Blake,Nicola Booth,Oleg Chekhlov,R. J. Clarke,R. Heathcote,Marco Galimberti,Ian Musgrave,D. Neely,Pedro Oliveira,Waseem Shaikh,Trevor Winstone,B.E. Wyborn,Cristina Hernandez-Gomez,John Collier +16 more
- 10 May 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, a picosecond front end was developed for an OPCPA-based new PW system for the Vulcan Laser Facility, which delivered 22fs pulses with 1.3mJ pulse energy at 100Hz repetition rate.
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Development of a pump laser for a Multi-TW OPCPA component test laboratory
Waseem Shaikh,T. Critchlow,Alexis Boyle,S. Blake,S. Chapman,A. Frackewicz,Marco Galimberti,S. Hancock,Ian Musgrave,D.A. Pepler,Trevor Winstone,Cristina Hernandez-Gomez +11 more
- 09 Jun 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the laser architecture that will be constructed as a pump laser for a Multi-TW OPCPA component test laboratory using glass rod amplifiers and a regenerative amplifier seeded by a modulated fiber laser source.
Progress of the development of the new PW beamline for Vulcan laser facility: 20 fs, sub-mJ OPCPA as a ps Front End
Giedre Archipovaite,Mario Galletti,Munadi Ahmad,S. Blake,Nicola Booth,Oleg Chekhlov,R. J. Clarke,R. Heathcote,Marco Galimberti,Ian Musgrave,D. Neely,Pedro Oliveira,Waseem Shaikh,Trevor Winstone,B.E. Wyborn,Cristina Hernandez-Gomez,John Collier +16 more
- 29 Sep 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, a new PW beamline for the Vulcan facility is presented with the focus on the front end of the PW. This fully OPCPA system is designed to deliver 30 J, 30 fs pulses with a 5 min repetition rate.
Commissioning the Astra Gemini petawatt Ti:sapphire laser system
C. J. Hooker,S. Blake,Oleg Chekhlov,R. J. Clarke,John Collier,E. J. Divall,Klaus Ertel,Peta Foster,S. J. Hawkes,P. Holligan,B. Landowski,W.J. Lester,D. Neely,B. Parry,R. Pattathil,M. J. V. Streeter,B.E. Wyborn +16 more
- 04 May 2008
TL;DR: Astra Gemini is a dual-beam petawatt Ti:sapphire laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the U.K. as mentioned in this paper reported measurements characterising the laser beam quality, pulse energy, and pulse duration of the first beam line.