We have studied experimentally and theoretically the parasitic lasing phenomenon in large-aperture Ti:sapphire crystals to optimize the amplification scheme of petawatt class Ti:sapphire laser. Simulations, first experimental results and strategy of amplification will be presented.


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    Title :

    Suppression of parasitic lasing in large-aperture Ti:sapphire amplifiers. Amplifying strategies for high rep-rate petawatt class Ti:sapphire systems


    Contributors:
    Ple, F. (author) / Pittman, M. (author) / Canova, F. (author) / Chambaret, J.-P. (author) / Mourou, G. (author) / Planchon, T. (author)

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    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    849422 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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