Carrier-envelope-phase stable, high-contrast, double chirped-pulse-amplification laser system
Authors:
- Aurelie JullienAJAurelie Jullien
- Aurelien RicciARAurelien Ricci
- Frederik BohleFBFrederik Bohle
- Jean-Philippe RousseauJRJean-Philippe Rousseau
- Stephanie GrabielleSGStephanie Grabielle
- Nicolas ForgetNFNicolas Forget
- Hermance JacqminHJHermance Jacqmin
- Brigitte MercierBMBrigitte Mercier
- Rodrigo Lopez-MartensRLRodrigo Lopez-Martens
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Abstract
We present the first carrier-envelope phase stable chirped pulse amplifier (CPA) featuring high temporal contrast for relativistic intensity laser-plasma interactions at 1 kHz repetition rate. The laser is based on a double-CPA architecture including XPW filtering technique and a high-energy grism-based compressor. 8 mJ, 22 fs pulses are produced with 10-11 temporal contrast at -20 ps and a CEP drift of 240 mrad RMS.Keywords
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- Version 1, 2018-02-05, ArXiv
- Published version: Optics Letters, 39 (13), 3774.
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