Title :
Glass hybrid OPCPA scale test bed laser
Author :
Feldman, S.H. ; Hays, G. ; Belolipetski, A. ; Herrmann, D. ; Schmidt, J. ; Quevedo, H.J. ; Bernstein, A.C. ; Ditmire, T.
Author_Institution :
Fusion Res. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
The Glass Hybrid OPCPA Scale Test bed (GHOST) Laser combines OPCPA with two types of Glass amplifiers to reduce gain narrowing and allow compression of a glass amplified pulse to almost 100 fs.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; solid lasers; gain narrowing; glass amplifiers; glass hybrid OPCPA scale test bed laser; optical parametric chirp pulse amplification; Glass; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pump lasers; Testing; (140.7090) General; (320.709) General;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-869-8