Design of a 10 Hz Femto-Petawatt Laser Pumped by the Mercury Laser Facility

A. Bayramian,James P. Armstrong,G. Beer,R. Campbell,R.R. Cross,A. Erlandson,Barry L. Freitas,R. Kent,Joseph A. Menapace,William A. Molander,Kathleen I. Schaffers,C. W. Siders,S. Sutton,John B. Tassano,S. Telford,Justin E. Wolfe,Christopher A. Ebbers,John A. Caird,C. P. J. Barty

Design of a 10 Hz Femto-Petawatt Laser Pumped by the Mercury Laser Facility

2008

A. Bayramian
James P. Armstrong
G. Beer
R. Campbell
R.R. Cross
A. Erlandson
Barry L. Freitas
R. Kent
Joseph A. Menapace
William A. Molander
Kathleen I. Schaffers
C. W. Siders
S. Sutton
John B. Tassano
S. Telford
Justin E. Wolfe
Christopher A. Ebbers
John A. Caird
C. P. J. Barty

The Mercury laser will be used to pump a high average power Ti:sapphire chirped pulse amplifier which will produce a compressed peak power >1 petawatt at 10 Hz.

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Mercury laser
Laser power scaling
Laser
Ti:sapphire laser
Injection seeder
Far-infrared laser
Chirped pulse amplification
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy
Electronic engineering
Optics
Materials science
Laser pumping

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