Amplification and temporal compression of a chirped laser pulse to a power of 20 TW - Realization and applications
Abstract
Results are reported from experimental investigations of chirped laser-pulse amplification and compression. The experimental apparatus and procedures are described, and results are presented graphically. Chirped pulses of duration 600 psec, energy 60 J, wavelength 1064 nm, and bandwidth 3.5 nm are produced and then compressed to duration 1.2 psec and energy 24 J using holographic diffraction gratings.
- Publication:
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Academie des Sciences Paris Comptes Rendus Serie Sciences Mathematiques
- Pub Date:
- January 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991CRASM.312..203A
- Keywords:
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- High Power Lasers;
- Laser Outputs;
- Laser Target Interactions;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Ultraviolet Lasers;
- Amplification;
- Chirp;
- Compton Effect;
- Gratings (Spectra);
- Holography;
- Yag Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers