High-contrast, high-intensity laser pulse generation using a nonlinear preamplifier in a Ti:sapphire laser system |
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| Authors: | Kiriyama Hiromitsu Mori Michiaki Nakai Yoshiki Shimomura Takuya Tanoue Manabu Akutsu Atushi Kondo Shuji Kanazawa Shuhei Okada Hajime Motomura Tomohiro Daido Hiroyuki Kimura Toyoaki Tajima Toshiki |
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| Affiliation: | Advanced Photon Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kizugawa-city, Kyoto, Japan. kiriyama.hiromitsu@jaea.go.jp |
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| Abstract: | We report a high-contrast, high-intensity Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification system that incorporates a nonlinear preamplifier based on optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA). By cooling the Ti:sapphire crystal in the final amplifier down to 77 K, the chirped-pulses are amplified to 2.9 J at a 10 Hz repetition rate without a thermal lensing effect. Pulse compression down to 19 fs duration obtained after amplification indicates a peak power of 80 TW. With the OPCPA, the temporal contrast is significantly improved to better than 7x10(-9) in a few picoseconds interval prior to the main laser pulse. |
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