Complete characterization of a plasma mirror for the production of high-contrast ultraintense laser pulses

G. Doumy; F. Quéré; O. Gobert; M. Perdrix; Ph Martin; P. Audebert; J. C. Gauthier; J. P. Geindre; T. Wittmann

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.69.026402

Complete characterization of a plasma mirror for the production of high-contrast ultraintense laser pulses

G. Doumy, F. Quéré, O. Gobert, M. Perdrix, Ph Martin, P. Audebert, J. C. Gauthier, J. P. Geindre, T. Wittmann

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A plasma mirror was theoretically and experimentally studied for the production of high-contrast ultraintense laser pulses. A Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti-sapphire oscillator was used for the generation of a pulse train of 40 nm spectral width. These pulses were temporally stretched to about 300 ps before being amplified in a Ti-sapphire regenerative amplifier, followed by two four-pass amplifiers. The results show that an improvement of the contrast ratio by more than two orders of magnitude can be achieved with a single plasma mirror, by using an antireflection coated plate as a target.

Original language	English
Article number	026402
Pages (from-to)	026402-1-026402-12
Journal	Physical Review E
Volume	69
Issue number	2 2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.69.026402
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2004

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