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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943028
