Demonstration of a 1.1 petawatt laser based on a hybrid optical parametric chirped pulse amplification/mixed Nd:glass amplifier

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1676-1681

  Gaul, Erhard W ^a   Martinez, Mikael ^a   Blakeney, Joel ^a   Jochmann, Axel ^a   Ringuette, Martin ^a   Hammond, Doug ^a   Borger, Ted ^a   Escamilla, Ramiro ^a   Douglas, Skylar ^a   Henderson, Watson ^a   Dyer, Gilliss ^a   Erlandson, Alvin ^b   Cross, Rick ^b   Caird, John ^b   Ebbers, Christopher ^b   Ditmire, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; GLASS; LASER OPTICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FS PULSE; MULTI-LAYER DIELECTRIC GRATINGS; ND: GLASS; ND:GLASS AMPLIFICATION; ND:GLASS AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PETAWATT LASER; PULSE ENERGIES;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77949789542     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.001676     Document Type: Article

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