Title :
Plasma-mirror-cleaned high-contrast few-cycle relativistic-intensity light pulses
Author :
Mikhailova, Julia M. ; Veisz, Laszlo ; Borot, Antonin ; Schmid, Karl ; Sears, Christopher M.S. ; Herrmann, Daniel ; Tautz, Raphael ; Buck, Alexander ; Hoerlein, Rainer ; Heissler, Patrick ; Tsakiris, George D. ; Krausz, Ferenc
Author_Institution :
Max-Planck-Inst. fur Quantenopt., Garching, Germany
Abstract :
A plasma mirror is shown to enhance the intensity contrast of 8fs multiterawatt light pulses by 2.5 orders of magnitude, while keeping the pulse duration unchanged. High reflectivity and improved near-field beam quality are demonstrated.
Keywords :
Biomedical optical imaging; Laser beams; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Plasmas; Pulse amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
