A survey of fiber laser technology in light of laser particle accelerator

Abstract

Fiber laser technology and related performance and maturity are surveyed with the perspectives of laser acceleration. Advantageous fiber attributes allow high efficiencies in energy-conversion and heat removal and superior performance in high repetition. Wide utilization in the industries has led to high reliability and cost effectiveness in fiber laser technology. With coherent combination of fiber amplifiers, average-power and peak-power levels are targeted for practical laser-driven plasma acceleration applications.