Title :
Ultrafast high-intensity lasers
Author_Institution :
California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. This tutorial will review the development of ultrafast high-intensity lasers and the technologies that make them possible. Topics will include a review of ultrashort pulse oscillators, control of high-order dispersion and spectral reshaping, selection of ultrafast compatible optical materials and components, management of thermal distortions and beam quality, and development of new pulse measurement and characterization technologies. A brief review of future systems including those being designed to reach petawatt peak powers with single-Hz repetition rates and terawatt peak powers at kHz repetition rates will also be presented.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; lasers; optical pulse compression; reviews; beam quality; chirped puse amplification; control of high-order dispersion; management of thermal distortions; petawatt peak powers; pulse measurement; spectral reshaping; terawatt peak powers; tutorial; ultrafast compatible optical materials; ultrafast high-intensity lasers; ultrashort pulse oscillators; Dispersion; Laser noise; Optical control; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse measurements; Quality management; Technology management; Thermal management;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-339-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.675792
