In this paper, the prepulses or the pedestal is intense enough to generate preplasma, which prevents the main pulse from interacting with a steep plasma. The plasma mirror is a promising technique for improving the pulse contrast. We used a Ti:Sa laser system providing 7 fs pulses with an energy of 400/spl mu/J on the target to generate and characterize the plasma mirror. The pulses are focused inside a vacuum chamber onto a glass target, which was rotated during the experiment and was replaced every two million shots. In conclusion we present an application-ready plasma mirror technique for few-cycle pulses, which improves the pulse contrast by two orders of magnitude and provides stable and well focusable pulses over an extended period of time (approx. one hour at 1 kHz pulse repetition rate).


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    Title :

    Plasma mirror with few-cycle laser pulses


    Contributors:
    Veisz, L. (author) / Nomura, Y. (author) / Schmid, K. (author) / Krausz, F. (author) / Wittmann, T. (author)


    Publication date :

    2005-01-01


    Size :

    239399 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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