Title :
The 10 PW OPCPA Vulcan laser upgrade
Author :
Chekhlov, O. ; Collier, J. ; Clark, R.J. ; Gomez, C. Hernandez ; Lyachev, A. ; Matousek, P. ; Musgrave, I.O. ; Neely, D. ; Norreys, P.A. ; Ross, I. ; Tang, Y. ; Winstone, T.B. ; Wyborn, B.E.
Author_Institution :
Central Laser Facility, Sci. & Technol. Facilities Council, Didcot, UK
Abstract :
We present the progress that has been made in developing 10PW capability for the Vulcan laser. These pulses will have focused intensities >1023 Wcm-2, which represents orders of magnitude increases in intensity currently available. This will be achieved by generating pulses with energies greater than 300J and with durations less than 30fs using the technique of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification, OPCPA.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; optical modulation; optical parametric amplifiers; Vulcan laser; optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; power 10 PW; Bandwidth; Crystals; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4079-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4080-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196350
