Nonlinear temporal pulse cleaning of a 1-μm optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system

被引：46

作者：

Cotel, A ^{[1
]}

Jullien, A

Forget, N

Albert, O

Chériaux, G

Le Blanc, C

机构：

[1] Ecole Polytech, CEA, CNRS, UMR 7605,Lab Utilisat Lasers Intenses, F-91128 Palaiseau, France

[2] ENSTA, CNRS, UMR 7639, Lab Opt Appl, F-91761 Palaiseau, France

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS | 2006年 / 83卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1007/s00340-006-2143-z

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate the technique of cross-polarized wave (XPW) generation at 1 mu m with a 310-fs optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system at the millijoule level. We show an improvement of the temporal contrast by three orders of magnitude with an energy transmission of 22%. Additionally, we report that XPW generation preserves the beam spatial quality and shortens the pulse duration by a factor of root 3, resulting in a peak power transmission of similar to 35%.

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