Generation of high-contrast and high-intensity laser pulses using an OPCPA preamplifier in a double CPA, Ti:sapphire laser system Export

@article{citeulike:4080082, abstract = {We demonstrate a high-contrast, high-intensity double chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) Ti:sapphire laser system using an optical parametric chirped-pulse (OPCPA) pre- amplifier. By injecting cleaned microjoule seed pulses into the OPCPA, a temporal contrast greater than 10 10 within picosecond times before the main femtosecond pulse is demonstrated with an output pulse energy of 1.7 J and a pulse duration of 30 fs, corresponding to a peak power of 60 TW at a 10 Hz repetition rate. This system uses a cryogenically-cooled Ti:sapphire final amplifier and generates focused peak intensities in excess of 10 20  W/cm 2 .}, author = {Kiriyama, H. and Mori, M. and Nakai, Y. and Shimomura, T. and Tanoue, M. and Akutsu, A. and Okada, H. and Motomura, T. and Kondo, S. and Kanazawa, S.}, citeulike-article-id = {4080082}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2008.10.067}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0030401808010535}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1016/j.optcom.2008.10.067}, issn = {00304018}, journal = {Optics Communications}, keywords = {amplification, amplifier, chirped, cpa, double, high-contrast, high-intensity, laser, opcpa, pulse, seeding, tisa}, month = {February}, number = {4}, pages = {625--628}, posted-at = {2009-02-22 19:07:13}, priority = {2}, title = {Generation of high-contrast and high-intensity laser pulses using an OPCPA preamplifier in a double CPA, Ti:sapphire laser system}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2008.10.067}, volume = {282}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4080082 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4080082 N2 - We demonstrate a high-contrast, high-intensity double chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) Ti:sapphire laser system using an optical parametric chirped-pulse (OPCPA) pre- amplifier. By injecting cleaned microjoule seed pulses into the OPCPA, a temporal contrast greater than 10 10 within picosecond times before the main femtosecond pulse is demonstrated with an output pulse energy of 1.7 J and a pulse duration of 30 fs, corresponding to a peak power of 60 TW at a 10 Hz repetition rate. This system uses a cryogenically-cooled Ti:sapphire final amplifier and generates focused peak intensities in excess of 10 20  W/cm 2 . IS - 4 JF - Optics Communications SN - 00304018 EP - 628 TI - Generation of high-contrast and high-intensity laser pulses using an OPCPA preamplifier in a double CPA, Ti:sapphire laser system VL - 282 SP - 625 KW - amplification KW - amplifier KW - chirped KW - cpa KW - double KW - high-contrast KW - high-intensity KW - laser KW - opcpa KW - pulse KW - seeding KW - tisa AU - Kiriyama, H AU - Mori, M AU - Nakai, Y AU - Shimomura, T AU - Tanoue, M AU - Akutsu, A AU - Okada, H AU - Motomura, T AU - Kondo, S AU - Kanazawa, S PY - 2009/02/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2008.10.067 ER -