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Contrast enhancements to petawatt lasers using short pulse optical parametric amplifiers and frequency doubling
2014
Applied Optics
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This paper describes the integration of a short pulse optical parametric amplifier into the chirped pulse amplification beam lines of the Orion laser facility. This enables Orion to generate petawatt laser pulses at 1054 nm with a nanosecond contrast of >10 10 . By combining this with frequency-doubling post compression, we can generate 100 J, 500 fs laser pulses with a nanosecond contrast calculated to be ∼10 18 .
doi:10.1364/ao.53.006938
pmid:25322402
fatcat:o2zymfnylnbvhfymu5f3qni3ba