Prepulse-free 30-TW, 1-ps Nd:glass laser

Opt Lett. 1991 Oct 15;16(20):1593-5. doi: 10.1364/ol.16.001593.

Abstract

A 30-TW,1.0-ps laser pulse at 1053 nm has been generated by chirped-pulse amplification in a large-aperture Nd:phosphate glass laser system. A peak-to-prepulse intensity ratio of better than 10(7) was obtained by temporal windowing of a self-phase-modulated chirped pulse before amplification and compression.