Title :
Techniques for pre-pulse contrast improvement on the 0.5 ps, 80 J, “C” beamline of the Trident Laser
Author :
Johnson, Randall P. ; Shimada, Tsutomu ; Shah, Rahul C.
Author_Institution :
Trident Laser Facility, Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM, USA
Abstract :
Non-linear pulse cleaning is used along with an OPA front end and improved stretcher designs to improve pre-pulse contrast on the high intensity short pulse beam line of the Trident Laser.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical parametric amplifiers; C beamline; OPA front end; Trident Laser; energy 80 J; high intensity short pulse beam line; nonlinear pulse cleaning; pre-pulse contrast improvement; stretcher designs; time 0.5 ps; Cleaning; Laser beams; Lenses; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical reflection;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
