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High-Stability High-Energy Picosecond Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier as a Preamplifier in Nd:Glass Petawatt System for Contrast Enhancement |
| Ting-Rui Huang1,2,3, Xue Pan1,2**, Peng Zhang1,2, Jiang-Feng Wang1,2, Xiao-Ping Ouyang1,2, Xue-Chun Li1,2 |
1National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai 201800
2Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 201800
3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
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Ting-Rui Huang, Xue Pan, Peng Zhang et al 2017 Chin. Phys. Lett. 34 064203 |
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Abstract We demonstrate a novel picosecond optical parametric preamplification to generate high-stability, high-energy and high-contrast seed pulses. The 5 ps seed pulse is amplified from 60 pJ to 300 $\mu$J with an 8.6 ps/ 3 mJ pump laser in a signal stage of short pulse non-collinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification. The total gain is more than 10$^{6}$ and the rms energy stability is under 1.35%. The contrast ratio is higher than 10$^{8}$ within a scale of 20 ps before the main pulse. Consequently, the improvement factor of the signal contrast is approximately equal to the gain 10$^{6}$ outside the pump window.
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Received: 14 February 2017
Published: 23 May 2017
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42.65.-k
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(Nonlinear optics)
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42.65.Ky
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(Frequency conversion; harmonic generation, including higher-order harmonic generation)
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42.65.Yj
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(Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers)
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42.70.Mp
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(Nonlinear optical crystals)
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| Fund: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11604350 and 61405211. |
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