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Article Dans Une Revue Optics Communications Année : 2009

14-fs high temporal quality injector for ultra-high intensity laser

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We present a chirped pulse amplification (CPA) Ti:Sa laser generating sub-15 fs pulses with expected high temporal quality. Gain-narrowing in the pre-amplifier is balanced by a variable spectral reflectivity mirror and by a fine adaptation of the saturation conditions. A crossed polarized wave generation (XPW) filter is introduced to enhance the contrast, reduce the pulse duration and improve the spectral quality. The pulses are generated at 10 Hz repetition rate, with pulse energy of 110 μJ and very clean Gaussian spectrum. The temporal contrast is evaluated by a measurement before the XPW filter and calculations of the enhancement by the filter. The potential temporal incoherent contrast is 10^12 and the coherent contrast 10^10. The performances of the system make it suitable as an injector for petawatt lasers operating in the double CPA scheme.

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hal-00429463 , version 1 (03-11-2009)

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Laura Antonucci, Jean-Phillipe Rousseau, Aurélie Jullien, Brigitte Mercier, Vincent Laude, et al.. 14-fs high temporal quality injector for ultra-high intensity laser. Optics Communications, 2009, 282 (7), pp.1374-1379. ⟨10.1016/j.optcom.2008.12.031⟩. ⟨hal-00429463⟩
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