Title :
The design and performance of high gain parametric amplifiers for petawatt class lasers
Author :
Schmidt, B. ; Banks, P.S. ; Jensen, S.P. ; Kendall, C.M. ; Perry, M.D.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Div., Gen. Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
The paper presents the design of an OPCPA based front end for petawatt class lasers. The issues of beam quality, jitter, spectral and temporal distortion are modeled and compared with experimental results on a novel system producing 100 mJ class pulses from the parametric amplifier section.
Keywords :
jitter; optical design techniques; optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse generation; 100 mJ; OPCPA based front end; beam quality; class pulses; high gain parametric amplifiers; jitter; petawatt class lasers; spectral distortion; temporal distortion; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Laser noise; Optical amplifiers; Optical design; Optical distortion; Optical pulses; Performance gain; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
