• DocumentCode
    2862180
  • Title

    High-efficiency temporal pulse cleaning for a 1 μm front end on a Petawatt-class laser

  • Author

    Cotel, A. ; Forget, N. ; Jullien, A. ; Albert, O. ; Cheriaux, G. ; Le Blanc, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Laboratoire pour l??Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI), UMR 7605, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, CEA, Universit?? ParisVI, 91128 Palaiseau, France
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that using the nonlinear temporal filtering technique XPW on front end system we increase the pulse contrast by three orders of magnitude and decrease the pulse duration leading to an efficiency of 35%.
  • Keywords
    filters; optical pulse generation; nonlinear temporal filtering; petawatt-class laser front end; temporal pulse cleaning; wavelength 1 mum; 140.7090; 320.2250; 320.7110;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627669
  • Filename
    4627669