Title :
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
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;
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
