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15 February 2012 A highly efficient broadband picosecond pump high-gain OPCPA system for Ti-sapphire seed pulses; an ideal seed for high-contrast, large-energy/aperture CPA laser system: Vulcan
W. Shaikh, I. O. Musgrave, M. Galimberti, A. Boyle
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The achievement of high contrast, high efficiency OPCPA systems has been a long established goal. We achieve close to ~20% conversion in a picosecond OPCPA system. This is now the standard seed for our petawatt pre-amplifier laser system which had a conventional 108 nanosecond gain. We thereby eliminate the need to the first nanosecond gain stage. We achieve a contrast at the 10-8 level when using the petawatt system in this configuration. We have also demonstrated a second stage of picosecond amplification with an extra gain of >2, maintaining the bandwidth and transform limited nature of the pulses, providing the potential for further improvements.
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W. Shaikh, I. O. Musgrave, M. Galimberti, and A. Boyle "A highly efficient broadband picosecond pump high-gain OPCPA system for Ti-sapphire seed pulses; an ideal seed for high-contrast, large-energy/aperture CPA laser system: Vulcan", Proc. SPIE 8240, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials, Devices, and Applications XI, 82400T (15 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.908385
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KEYWORDS
Picosecond phenomena

Laser systems engineering

Optical amplifiers

Relays

Diagnostics

Luminescence

Mirrors

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