Title :
Development of 10 PW OPCPA Capability on the Vulcan Laser
Author :
Checkhlov, O. ; Collier, J. ; Hernandez-Gomez, C. ; Matousek, P. ; Musgrave, I. ; Ross, I. ; Tang, Y. ; Winstone, T.
Author_Institution :
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot
Abstract :
In this paper we present the progress that we have made in developing 10PW capability for the Vulcan laser to produce pulses with focused intensities >1023 Wcm"2. This represents orders of magnitude increases in intensity currently available and will be achieved using the technique of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification1\´2. This project will last for four years and is structured in two phases. This power level will be delivered by generating pulses with >300J in 30fs.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; OPCPA; Vulcan laser; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; power 10 PW; Bandwidth; Chirp; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386339
