35 TW pulse generation for laser-plasma interaction studies

We report the development at the VULCAN Nd:glass laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) operation at 620 fs to give 35 TW in a single large aperture beam, with focused intensities on target in excess of 1019 Wcm-2. We present a technique to optimise the para...

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Main Authors: Pepler, D, Danson, C, Barr, J, Barzanti, L, Ebbage, MD, Edwards, C, Gander, M, Hanna, D, Hughes, D, Hutchinson, M, Key, M, Majdabadi, A, Mercer, I, Neely, D, Norreys, P, et, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 1994