Producing focused intensity of 3/spl times/10/sup 18/ W/cm/sup 2/ with a 1 kHz laser

Author

Albert, O. ; Wang, Hsun-Wen ; Liu, Deming ; Mourou, Gerard ; Chang, Zhe

Author_Institution

Lab. d´Opt. Appl., Ecole Polytech., Palaiseau, France

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only given. Ultrahigh focused intensities (>10/sup 18/ W/cm/sup 2/) is very important for high field physics studies at the relativistic regime. Very small number optics must be used for focusing of kHz laser pulses. However, the focused intensity is limited by the aberration of the optics and the wavefront distortion of the laser system. The laser we used is a home-built 1 kHz Ti:sapphlre laser system. The oscillator of the laser generates broadband femtosecond pulses (120 nm FWHM).

Keywords

aberrations; laser accessories; optical focusing; optical pulse generation; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; aberration; broadband femtosecond pulse generation; focused intensity; high field physics studies; kHz Ti:sapphlre laser system; kHz laser; kHz laser pulses; relativistic regime; ultrahigh focused intensities; very small number optics; wavefront distortion; Adaptive optics; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical distortion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Physics; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6319-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2000.909764

Filename

909764