DocumentCode
411642
Title
The design and performance of high gain parametric amplifiers for petawatt class lasers
Author
Schmidt, B. ; Banks, P.S. ; Jensen, S.P. ; Kendall, C.M. ; Perry, M.D.
Author_Institution
Photonics Div., Gen. Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
fYear
2003
fDate
6-6 June 2003
Abstract
The paper presents the design of an OPCPA based front end for petawatt class lasers. The issues of beam quality, jitter, spectral and temporal distortion are modeled and compared with experimental results on a novel system producing 100 mJ class pulses from the parametric amplifier section.
Keywords
jitter; optical design techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; 100 mJ; OPCPA based front end; beam quality; class pulses; high gain parametric amplifiers; jitter; petawatt class lasers; spectral distortion; temporal distortion; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Laser noise; Optical amplifiers; Optical design; Optical distortion; Optical pulses; Performance gain; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-748-2
Type
conf
Filename
1297721
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