Design of a 10 PW (150 J/15 fs) peak power laser system with Ti: sapphire medium through spectral control

F Giambruno, C Radier, G Rey, G Chériaux - Applied optics, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Design of a 10 PW (150 J/15 fs) peak power laser system with Ti:sapphire medium through
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High-spatiotemporal-quality petawatt-class laser system

H Kiriyama, M Michiaki, Y Nakai, T Shimomura… - Applied Optics, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We have developed a femtosecond high-intensity laser system that combines both Ti:
sapphire chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) and optical parametric CPA (OPCPA) …

Multi-terawatt laser system generating 12-fs pulses at 100 Hz repetition rate

Y Nabekawa, A Amani Eilanlou, Y Furukawa… - Applied Physics B, 2010 - Springer
We have developed a laser system generating high peak-power ultrashort pulses based on
the chirped pulse amplification of a Ti: sapphire laser. The pulse duration of the laser is …

[HTML][HTML] Pulse contrast enhancement via non-collinear sum-frequency generation with the signal and idler of an optical parametric amplifier

E Cunningham, E Galtier, G Dyer, J Robinson… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We outline an approach for improving the temporal contrast of a high-intensity laser system
by> 8 orders of magnitude using noncollinear sum-frequency generation with the signal and …

Nonlinear beam shaper for femtosecond laser pulses, from Gaussian to flat-top profile

B Mercier, JP Rousseau, A Jullien, L Antonucci - Optics Communications, 2010 - Elsevier
We present a straightforward method to transform a spatially Gaussian femtosecond laser
beam into a flat-top shaped beam. The proposed technique takes advantage of a nonlinear …

Pulse temporal quality improvement in a petawatt Ti: Sapphire laser based on cross-polarized wave generation

Y Xu, Y Leng, X Guo, X Zou, Y Li, X Lu, C Wang… - Optics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Based on cross-polarized wave generation, a robust front-end is designed for improving
pulse temporal quality of a petawatt Ti: sapphire laser. High-contrast seed pulses with 105 …

Limits of the temporal contrast for CPA lasers with beams of high aperture

M Kalashnikov, A Andreev… - … Conference on Ultrafast …, 2009 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We review the impact of major effects taking place in high peak power short pulse CPA
lasers, that modify the spectral amplitude and phase of a recompressed pulse and thus …

High-contrast near-IR short pulses generated by a mid-IR optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier with frequency doubling

P Yuan, G Xie, D Zhang, H Zhong, L Qian - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the generation of high-contrast 1054nm short pulses based on a mid-IR
optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier with frequency doubling. Measurement-limited …

X-ray spectroscopy diagnoses of clusters surviving under prepulses of ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulse irradiation

AY Faenov, IY Skobelev, TA Pikuz, SA Pikuz… - Laser and Particle …, 2012 - cambridge.org
It is shown that various spectroscopic methods based on measurements of X-ray spectra
radiated from cluster targets can be used for estimation of the destruction degree of clusters …

A novel design of double chirped pulse amplification laser systems for fourth-order dispersion control

F Wu, C Wang, J Hu, Z Zhang, X Yang, X Liu, Y Liu… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A novel design of double chirped pulse amplification laser systems implementing a
combination of negatively and positively chirped pulse amplification is proposed for the first …