• DocumentCode
    2900098
  • Title

    Temporal contrast enhanced to 10-10 for Petawatt scale femtosecond lasers

  • Author

    Jullien, A. ; Albert, O. ; Etchepare, J. ; Augé-Rochereau, F. ; Chambaret, J.P. ; Chériaux, G. ; Minkovski, N. ; Saltiel, S.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Thales Laser, Orsay, France
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    420
  • Abstract
    We present a new non-linear solid-state technique for temporal femtosecond pulses cleaning. The contrast reaches 10-10 for millijoule input pulse. The method is reliable enough to solve the contrast issue for Petawatt class lasers.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; multiwave mixing; Petawatt scale femtosecond lasers; nonlinear solid-state technique; pulse cleaning; Correlators; Delay; Distortion measurement; Filtering; Laser beams; Phase distortion; Phase measurement; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Spatial filters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2005. CLEO/Europe. 2005 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8974-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2005.1568198
  • Filename
    1568198
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2900098