• DocumentCode
    521490
  • Title

    Contrast measurements of kilojoule laser pulses at the OMEGA EP laser facility

  • Author

    Dorrer, C. ; Irwin, D. ; Consentino, A. ; Qiao, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The OMEGA EP intensity contrast has been measured to be approximately 6 decades for kilojoule 10-ps pulses. The OPCPA front end is the primary source of the measured incoherent pedestal.
  • Keywords
    Energy measurement; Fluorescence; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Oscilloscopes; Photodiodes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5501112