The paper presents the design of an OPCPA based front end for petawatt class lasers. The issues of beam quality, jitter, spectral and temporal distortion are modeled and compared with experimental results on a novel system producing 100 mJ class pulses from the parametric amplifier section.
The design and performance of high gain parametric amplifiers for petawatt class lasers
2003-01-01
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English
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