• DocumentCode
    546959
  • Title

    Techniques for pre-pulse contrast improvement on the 0.5 ps, 80 J, “C” beamline of the Trident Laser

  • Author

    Johnson, Randall P. ; Shimada, Tsutomu ; Shah, Rahul C.

  • Author_Institution
    Trident Laser Facility, Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Non-linear pulse cleaning is used along with an OPA front end and improved stretcher designs to improve pre-pulse contrast on the high intensity short pulse beam line of the Trident Laser.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; C beamline; OPA front end; Trident Laser; energy 80 J; high intensity short pulse beam line; nonlinear pulse cleaning; pre-pulse contrast improvement; stretcher designs; time 0.5 ps; Cleaning; Laser beams; Lenses; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical reflection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951184