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A high-contrast all-glass ps-terawatt CPA laser system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

M.P. Kalashnikov ,
P.V. Nickles ,
I. Will ,
F. Billhardt  and
M. Schnürer
M.P. Kalashnikov
Affiliation:
Max-Born-Institute of Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Rudower Chaussee 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany
P.V. Nickles
Affiliation:
Max-Born-Institute of Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Rudower Chaussee 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany
I. Will
Affiliation:
Max-Born-Institute of Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Rudower Chaussee 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany
F. Billhardt
Affiliation:
Max-Born-Institute of Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Rudower Chaussee 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany
M. Schnürer
Affiliation:
Max-Born-Institute of Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Rudower Chaussee 6, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Abstract

We report on a compact, all-glass laser using a fiberless CPA technique as a potential system for the generation of extreme high-contrast picosecond pulses in the terawatt power range. New exciting experiments in the field of laser-matter interaction at extremely high intensities require both a high output energy and a very high peak to background intensity ratio (contrast). At present the system delivers 1.5 ps-pulses of 1.5-J energy with an intensity contrast of 4.109.

Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 463 - 469
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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