Petawatt Femtosecond Laser Pulses from Titanium-Doped Sapphire Crystal

Autor: Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Alexander S. Pirozhkov, Mamiko Nishiuchi, Yuji Fukuda, Akito Sagisaka, Akira Kon, Yasuhiro Miyasaka, Koichi Ogura, Nicholas P. Dover, Kotaro Kondo, Hironao Sakaki, James K. Koga, Timur Zh. Esirkepov, Kai Huang, Nobuhiko Nakanii, Masaki Kando, Kiminori Kondo, Stefan Bock, Tim Ziegler, Thomas Püschel, Karl Zeil, Ulrich Schramm
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Crystals, Vol 10, Iss 9, p 783 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-4352
DOI: 10.3390/cryst10090783
Popis: Ultra-high intensity femtosecond lasers have now become excellent scientific tools for the study of extreme material states in small-scale laboratory settings. The invention of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) combined with titanium-doped sapphire (Ti:sapphire) crystals have enabled realization of such lasers. The pursuit of ultra-high intensity science and applications is driving worldwide development of new capabilities. A petawatt (PW = 1015 W), femtosecond (fs = 10−15 s), repetitive (0.1 Hz), high beam quality J-KAREN-P (Japan Kansai Advanced Relativistic ENgineering Petawatt) Ti:sapphire CPA laser has been recently constructed and used for accelerating charged particles (ions and electrons) and generating coherent and incoherent ultra-short-pulse, high-energy photon (X-ray) radiation. Ultra-high intensities of 1022 W/cm2 with high temporal contrast of 10−12 and a minimal number of pre-pulses on target has been demonstrated with the J-KAREN-P laser. Here, worldwide ultra-high intensity laser development is summarized, the output performance and spatiotemporal quality improvement of the J-KAREN-P laser are described, and some experimental results are briefly introduced.
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