ASE contrast improvement in CPA ultra-intense laser chain

Author

Cheriaux, G. ; Rey, Germain ; Ferre, S. ; Auge, F. ; Chambaret, J.-P. ; D´oliveira, Philippe

Author_Institution

Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

51

Abstract

Summary form only given. Different possible solutions for improving the contrast consist in seeding the preamplifier with more energetic pulses, amplifying these energetic pulses via a low ASE preamplifier in the femtosecond regime and also temporally filtering the ASE versus the femtosecond pulse in a nonlinear interferometer before the power amplifiers. Preliminary results have been obtained by temporal filtering a millijoule level femtosecond pulse with a Sagnac interferometer in the nonlinear regime.

Keywords

chirp modulation; light interferometers; nonlinear optics; optical modulation; solid lasers; superradiance; Sagnac interferometer; chirp pulse amplification; energetic pulses; femtosecond pulse; low ASE preamplifier; nonlinear interferometer; power amplifiers; preamplifier seeding; solid lasers; temporally filtering; third-order cross-correlation; Chemical lasers; Chirp; Gratings; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Power lasers; Preamplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Sagnac interferometers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033421

Filename

1033421