Title :
High-efficiency temporal pulse cleaning for a 1 μm front end on a Petawatt-class laser
Author :
Cotel, A. ; Forget, N. ; Jullien, A. ; Albert, O. ; Cheriaux, G. ; Le Blanc, C.
Author_Institution :
Laboratoire pour l??Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI), UMR 7605, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, CEA, Universit?? ParisVI, 91128 Palaiseau, France
Abstract :
We demonstrate that using the nonlinear temporal filtering technique XPW on front end system we increase the pulse contrast by three orders of magnitude and decrease the pulse duration leading to an efficiency of 35%.
Keywords :
filters; optical pulse generation; nonlinear temporal filtering; petawatt-class laser front end; temporal pulse cleaning; wavelength 1 mum; 140.7090; 320.2250; 320.7110;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627669
