| Literature DB >> 16642137 |
V Chvykov1, P Rousseau, S Reed, G Kalinchenko, V Yanovsky.
Abstract
We demonstrate what we believe to be the highest-contrast (10(11)), multiterawatt, chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) Ti:sapphire laser by applying the modified cross-polarized-wave (XPW) generation method. This method produces a contrast improvement of 3 orders of magnitude using microjoule input energy. Microjoule energy can be achieved by direct amplification without the complications of a double CPA system. The 10(11) contrast is sufficient for experiments on high-damage-threshold solid targets with focused intensities up to 10(22) W/cm(2).Entities:
Year: 2006 PMID: 16642137 DOI: 10.1364/ol.31.001456
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Opt Lett ISSN: 0146-9592 Impact factor: 3.776