Published February 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Control of amplified optical parametric florescence in optical parametric chirped pulse amplification and high power optical pulse generation

  • 1. Osaka Univ., Graduate School of Engineering, Suita, Osaka (Japan)

Description

The amplified optical parametric fluorescence (AOPF) from optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier (OPCPA) was controlled by injecting a residual fundamental pulse from a seeded Q-switch Nd:YAG pumping laser, as a quenching beam. The output pulse from the OPCPA was used as a seed pulse for Ti:sapphire chirped pulse amplifier (CPA) system to generate over 10TW peak power with a high contrast ratio. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Reza Kenkyu
Journal Volume
34
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 117-122
ISSN
0387-0200

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Notes
18 refs., 10 figs.