Generation of 15-TW femtosecond pulses at 10 Hz in a Ti:sapphire laser chain

Author

Antonetti, A. ; Chambaret, J.P. ; Cheriaux, G. ; Curley, P. ; Darpentigny, G. ; Hamoniaux, G. ; Le Blanc, C. ; Rousseau, Pierre ; Salin, F.

Author_Institution

Lab. d´Opt. Appliquee, Ecole Polytech., Palaiseau, France

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

306

Lastpage

307

Abstract

Summary form only given. We describe here a Ti:sapphire laser amplifier producing 15 TW pulses at 10 Hz, which has been designed to produce pedestal-free pulses. To reduce any prepulse, we designed the amplifier with broad transmission bandwidth, minimum material path length, high gain and an aberration-free system for stretching and recompressing the pulses.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical pulse compression; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; 10 to 50 fs; 15 TW; TW femtosecond laser pulse generation; Ti:sapphire laser amplifier; Ti:sapphire laser chain; aberration-free system; broad transmission bandwidth; high gain; minimum material path length; optical pulse recompression; optical pulse stretching; pedestal-free pulses; prepulse; Batteries; Chirp; Elementary particle vacuum; Optical pulse generation; Optimized production technology; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse measurements; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864712