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Reduced Parasitic Lasing in
Ti: Sapphire Lasers: Removing a Bottleneck to New Ways of Acceleration--Crystal
Systems, Inc., 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA
01970; 978-745-0088; www.crystalsystems.com
Dr. David B Joyce, Principal
Investigator, djoyce@crystalsystems.com
Ms. Leila Panzner,
Business Official, leila@crystalsystems.com
DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-07ER84820
Amount: $98,458
New, ultrafast, ultra-intense
solid state lasers can be efficient sources of accelerated particle beams in
applications ranging from high energy physics research to real world medical
applications. However, parasitic lasing
represents a severe bottleneck to scaling-up this new technology. Removing this bottleneck would efficiently
bring accelerator technology to a wide range of real world problems. In this project, parasitic lasing will be
reduced by a series of growth and post-growth treatments, in order to allow the
production of large Ti: sapphire crystals without parasitic lasing. The crystals will be treated with varying
oxidation states, as well as with other reactions on the surface, to provide a
homogenous crystal with reduced parasitic lasing.
Commercial
Applications and other Benefits as described by the awardee: In addition
to the application for High Energy Physics,
the technology could be used in proton therapy for the treatment of cancer with
compact efficient sources of high energy protons.