High-contrast terawatt pulses from fiberless chirped-pulse amplification laser based on 1-ps direct feedback controlled Nd:glass oscillator

Liang Zhao; F. W. Budnik; G. Kulcsar; M. Stanier; J. Mihaychuk; Robin S. Marjoribanks

doi:10.1117/12.165601

5 January 1994 High-contrast terawatt pulses from fiberless chirped-pulse amplification laser based on 1-ps direct feedback controlled Nd:glass oscillator

Liang Zhao, F. W. Budnik, G. Kulcsar, M. Stanier, J. Mihaychuk, Robin S. Marjoribanks

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Proceedings Volume 2041, Mode-locked and Other Ultrashort Laser Designs, Amplifiers, and Applications; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.165601
Event: Optics Quebec, 1993, Quebec City, Canada

Abstract

A fiberless 1-TW all-Nd:glass chirped-pulse amplification laser system is described in this paper. Starting from high-contrast 1-ps pulses produced directly from a Nd:glass feedback- controlled oscillator, this system employs a fiberless, gratings-only expansion/compression scheme, and produces clean (5 X 10⁷ prepulse contrast) 1-J, 1.2-ps recompressed pulses without added pulse-cleaning. The same system can also be configured to produce up to 5-J uncompressed 410-ps pulses. A novel subpicosecond cross-correlation technique is also described.

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Liang Zhao, F. W. Budnik, G. Kulcsar, M. Stanier, J. Mihaychuk, and Robin S. Marjoribanks "High-contrast terawatt pulses from fiberless chirped-pulse amplification laser based on 1-ps direct feedback controlled Nd:glass oscillator", Proc. SPIE 2041, Mode-locked and Other Ultrashort Laser Designs, Amplifiers, and Applications, (5 January 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.165601

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