Design and characterization of a near-diffraction-limited femtosecond 100-TW 10-Hz high-intensity laser system

被引：188

作者：

Pittman, M ^{[1
]}

Ferré, S ^{[1
]}

Rousseau, JP ^{[1
]}

Notebaert, L ^{[1
]}

Chambaret, JP ^{[1
]}

Chériaux, G ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] ENSTA, Ecole Polytech, Lab Opt Appl, CNRS UMR 7639, F-91761 Palaiseau, France

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS | 2002年 / 74卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1007/s003400200838

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We present the design and characterization of a femtosecond high-intensity laser system emitting a near-diffraction-limited beam. This system was dimensioned in order to reach intensities in excess of 10(20) W/cm(2) at a high repetition rate for ultrahigh-fleld physics experiments. We describe the improvements that were added to a conventional chirp pulse amplification configuration in order to decrease the deleterious effects of gain narrowing, gain shifting, thermal focusing in the amplifier stages, and spatial degradation due to multipass amplification processes.

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页码：529 / 535

页数：7

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