Optimization of plasma amplifiers

Plasma amplifiers offer a route to side-step limitations on chirped pulse amplification and generate laser pulses at the power frontier. They compress long pulses by transferring energy to a shorter pulse via the Raman or Brillouin instabilities.We present an extensive kinetic numerical study of the...

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Main Authors: Sadler, J, Trines, R, Tabak, M, Haberberger, D, Froula, D, Davies, A, Bucht, S, Silva, L, Alves, E, Fiuza, F, Ceurvorst, L, Ratan, N, Kasim, M, Bingham, R, Norreys, P
Format: Journal article
Published: American Physical Society 2017