Power scaling of Ti:Sapphire amplifiers: Design of a high average power Temto-Petawatt laser

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,Christopher A. Ebbers,John A. Caird,C. P. J. Barty

Power scaling of Ti:Sapphire amplifiers: Design of a high average power Temto-Petawatt laser

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
Christopher A. Ebbers
John A. Caird
C. P. J. Barty

A large-aperture high-average-power gas-cooled Ti:sapphire slab pumped by the Mercury laser is the final amplifier in a chirped pulse amplification chain capable of producing a compressed peak power >1 petawatt and peak intensity >10 23 W/cm 2 .

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Laser power scaling
Amplifier
Mercury laser
Chirped pulse amplification
Laser
Orders of magnitude (power)
Sapphire
Optics
Physics
Slab
Optoelectronics

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