DocumentCode
2068055
Title
From OPA to OPCPA: Boosting laser pulses to extreme intensities
Author
Piskarskas, A. ; Butkus, R.
Author_Institution
Laser Res. Center, Vilnius Univ., Vilnius, Lithuania
fYear
2011
fDate
22-26 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
The trends in development and current state of the art of OP-CPA based systems that cover a variety of setups ranging from the amplification of extremely short (few cycles) to ultrahigh (petawatt-level) power optical pulses will be discussed. Due to inherently high-contrast output pulses, OPA´s of chirped pulses are increasingly adopted as front-ends of ultra-high intensity lasers.
Keywords
amplification; chirp modulation; laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; high-contrast output pulses; optical parametric amplifiers; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; petawatt-level power optical pulses; ultrahigh intensity lasers; ultrahigh power optical pulses; Chirp;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location
Munich
ISSN
Pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN
Pending
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943028
Filename
5943028
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