Title

Multi-Terawatt Femtosecond Cr-Lisaf Laser

Authors

Authors

P. A. Beaud; M. Richardson;E. J. Miesak

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

Keywords

CHIRPED-PULSE-AMPLIFICATION; TI-SAPPHIRE LASER; PUMPED CR-LISRALF6; LASER; SOLID-STATE LASERS; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL PULSES; GLASS-LASER; GENERATION; COMPRESSION; PERFORMANCE; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied

Abstract

We discuss the design of a Cr:LiSAF laser system capable of generating ultrashort, 90-fs Fourier-transform limited pulses with a peak power of 8 TW. Using chirped pulse amplification and flashlamp-pumped Cr:LiSAF amplifiers this system incorporates a regenerative amplifier and three additional double-pass amplifiers with increasing aperture up to 25 mm. The temporal performance as well as the spatial beam quality are discussed in detail. We discuss extension of this system to the Petawatt power level

Journal Title

Ieee Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volume

31

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

317

Last Page

325

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1995QG49900015

ISSN

0018-9197

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