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
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